{"id":11130,"date":"2020-06-17T19:09:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T02:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11130"},"modified":"2020-06-17T19:16:24","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T02:16:24","slug":"june-17-evening-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11130","title":{"rendered":"June 17 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2020 June 17 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n

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   <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:  At Panama Flats this afternoon I saw five Cabbage Whites <\/strong>and three Essex Skippers.<\/strong>  <\/strong>There was a massive and extensive display of blackberry bushes in full flower, but not a swallowtail in sight.  However, at 6:15 pm this evening I saw a Western Tiger Swallowtail <\/strong>fly over the reservoir – the first swallowtail of any species that I have seen this year.  That was the only butterfly I saw at the top of Mount Tolmie.<\/p>\n

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  Kim Beardmore photographed this Sheep Moth <\/strong>caterpillar along the Munn Road power lines today.  These caterpillars can give you a rash if handled.<\/p>\n

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Sheep Moth Hemileuca eglanterina <\/em>(Lep.: Saturniidae) Kim Beardmore<\/p>\n

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   Wendy Ansell writes:  Today (Wednesday) we saw 1, possibly 2, Lorquin’s Admirals<\/strong> and 1 Western Tiger<\/strong> Swallowtail<\/strong> at Playfair Park.  By the way, we frequently see 1 or 2 Western Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong> in our yard on Cordova Ridge, 1 so far today.<\/p>\n

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   Jeff Gaskin  writes:  Kirsten Mills and I  had some good butterflies in Nanaimo and Duncan today, June 17.  Along the trail near the Duncan sewage lagoons we saw from between 6 – 8 Western Tiger<\/strong> Swallowtails<\/strong>, and 1 Pale Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

 On Nanaimo River Road:  For 15 kilometres from the Trans Canada Highway we saw 15 Pale Tiger<\/strong> Swallowtails,  4 Western Tiger Swallowtails,  5 Western Spring Azures,  1 Lorquin’s Admiral,<\/strong> and 13 Clodius Parnassians<\/strong>.  The Clodius Parnassians were found between the 8.5 km point to the 15 km point.<\/p>\n

  More tomorrow – couldn’t get everything up today! – Jeremy T.<\/p>\n

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2020 June 17 evening      Jeremy Tatum writes:  At Panama Flats this afternoon I saw five Cabbage Whites and three Essex Skippers.  There was a massive and extensive display of blackberry bushes in full flower, but not a swallowtail in sight.  However, at 6:15 pm this evening I saw a Western Tiger Swallowtail fly […]<\/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-11130","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\/11130","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=11130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}