{"id":10926,"date":"2020-05-28T09:25:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T16:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10926"},"modified":"2020-05-28T09:26:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T16:26:04","slug":"may-28-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10926","title":{"rendered":"May 28 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2020 May 28 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n

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   <\/strong>Colias <\/em><\/strong>alert!<\/strong>  Val  George writes:  Yesterday afternoon, May 27 in the parking lot at Goldstream Park, I was very surprised to see a species of butterfly I wouldn’t have expected in that habitat, and in any case it’s a rare species for this area. I was sitting in my car eating lunch when a sulphur (<\/strong>Colias sp.<\/em><\/strong>)<\/strong> butterfly flew past me.  Though it was only a few metres from me I was not able to identify it to the species level.<\/p>\n

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  Jeremy Tatum writes:  May we perhaps speculate?   The usual sulphur that we see (rarely) is the Orange Sulphur C. eurytheme<\/em>.   Last time that we had an irruption of these, we were fairly sure that among them were also a few Clouded Sulphurs C. philodice<\/em>.  But both of these are migratory species that we see occasionally at the very end of summer.   I can’t offhand remember any sightings for May.  So perhaps Val’s butterfly might be the resident (up-Island) Western Sulphur C. occidentalis<\/em>.  In any case let’s all keep an eye out for whatever it is!<\/p>\n

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   <\/strong>Gordon Hart writes:  There were a few butterflies and moths around home yesterday, Wednesday, May 27. A Pale Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong>, and a Western Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong>, two Cedar Hairstreaks<\/strong>, four or more Western Spring Azures<\/strong>, and a Propertius Duskywing<\/strong>.  There were several small plain moths, and one Helicopter Moth<\/strong> ( I think that is their common name),  Emmelina monodactyla. <\/em><\/strong>At Panama Flats yesterday, we saw several Cabbage Whites<\/strong> and a faded Painted Lady<\/strong>, as well as a damselfly, Tule Bluet<\/strong> Enallagma carunculatum<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:  I hadn’t heard the name “Helicopter Moth”, but that sounds good.  I have been calling them privately the Rumpel Taube (Dove) after a very early German monoplane.  The caterpillars feed on the flowers of Calystegia<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Emmelina monodactyla <\/em>(Lep.: Pterophoridae)  Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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Propertius Duskywing Erynnis propertius <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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Tule Bluet Enallagma carunculatum <\/em>(Odo.: Coenagrionidae)  Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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2020 May 28 morning      Colias alert!  Val  George writes:  Yesterday afternoon, May 27 in the parking lot at Goldstream Park, I was very surprised to see a species of butterfly I wouldn’t have expected in that habitat, and in any case it’s a rare species for this area. I was sitting in my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}