{"id":11101,"date":"2020-06-14T15:42:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T22:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11101"},"modified":"2020-06-16T08:56:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T15:56:31","slug":"june-14-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11101","title":{"rendered":"June 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2020 June 14<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jochen&#8217;s moths from Metchosin this morning.\u00a0 No photos.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Callizzia amorata\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Enypia packardata <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>2 Iridopsis emasculatum\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Lophocampa maculata <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Tyria jacobaeae<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Nadata gibbosa <\/em><\/strong>(same one, still there and still alive)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lynda Dowling, from Happy Valley Herb Farm, sends via Gordon Hart a photograph of a\u00a0 <strong><em>Mesoleuca gratulata<\/em><\/strong> photographed in May this year:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pastedImage-98.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Mesoleuca gratulata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Lynda Dowling<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Claudia Copley sent the photographs below (taken by Darren Copley on June 12) of a chrysalis on the house of a friend, Chris Nation, in Gordon Head. The caterpillar that formed it was seen there in June 11, and it had formed the pupa by the following day.\u00a0 This makes a nice record of breeding of a <strong>California Tortoiseshell <\/strong>here.\u00a0\u00a0 In case you are wondering, the butterfly within is facing to the left in the first photo below, and it has its back to you in the third photo.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pastedImage-99.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">California Tortoiseshell <em>Nymphalis californica <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Darren Copley<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pastedImage-100.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">California Tortoiseshell <em>Nymphalis californica <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Darren Copley<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pastedImage-101.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">California Tortoiseshell <em>Nymphalis californica <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Darren Copley<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Today I went to Munn Road hydro line \u2013 butterfly hotspot \u2013 for a couple of hours, and I saw one <strong>Western Spring Azure<\/strong> \u2013 the first butterfly of any sort that I have seen since June 1.\u00a0 Twelve straight days without a butterfly \u2013 I&#8217;m getting desperate!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 June 14 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jochen&#8217;s moths from Metchosin this morning.\u00a0 No photos. &nbsp; 1 Callizzia amorata\u00a0 1 Enypia packardata 2 Iridopsis emasculatum\u00a0 1 Lophocampa maculata 1 Tyria jacobaeae 1 Nadata gibbosa (same one, still there and still alive) &nbsp; &nbsp; Lynda Dowling, from Happy Valley Herb Farm, sends via Gordon Hart a photograph of [&hellip;]<\/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-11101","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\/11101","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=11101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11114,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11101\/revisions\/11114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}