{"id":1137,"date":"2015-04-10T02:19:27","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T09:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:38:09","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:38:09","slug":"april-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=1137","title":{"rendered":"April 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><html> <head> <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=iso-8859-1\"> <\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" style=\"display:none\"><!--P{margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} --><\/style>\n<p> <\/head> <body dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-size:12pt;color:#000000;background-color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"> <\/p>\n<p><strong>2015 April 9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Barbara McGrenere writes:&nbsp; About 4:30 yesterday afternoon, Mike and I took a short hike to the south slope of Mount Douglas to look for butterflies.&nbsp; There were eight <strong>Sara Orangetips<\/strong> &#8211; &nbsp;one stopped briefly on a low growing plant with purple &#8220;pea&#8221; type flowers.&nbsp; There was also one fast flying <strong>Propertius Duskywing<\/strong> and one <strong>Western Spring<\/strong> <strong> Azure<\/strong> that did not stop flying. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 299px;\" hasheight=\"false\" setwidth=\"299\" setheight=\"224\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" originalheight=\"240\" originalwidth=\"320\" name=\"\" title=\"Orangetip BarbMcG.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image55273330611ea.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">Male Sara Orangetip <em>Anthocharis sara <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Barbara McGrenere<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; Today I saw a <strong>Sara Orangetip <\/strong>and a <strong> Propertius Duskywing<\/strong> on Christmas Hill, and two <strong>Satyr Commas<\/strong> along the Lochside trail between Lohbrunner&#8217;s and Blenkinsop Lake. I saw no butterflies at all on Mount Tolmie, but I did find something else of interest.&nbsp; I came across  a small colony of <strong>mining bees<\/strong>, probably <strong><em>Adrena <\/em> <\/strong><strong>sp.<\/strong><strong>&nbsp; <\/strong>There were about 20 burrow entrances on or beside the path, and several bees flying around them.&nbsp; But almost as many as the bees were a number of <strong>bombyliid flies (Bee flies)<\/strong>, probably <strong><em>Bombylius major<\/em><\/strong><em>,<\/em> obviously interested in the burrows.&nbsp; I got down on my hands and knees and watched them for a while, pretending to be J. H. Fabre.&nbsp; Typically a fly would  hover about a centimetre immediately above a burrow entrance, and then suddenly it would dart down to the entrance of the burrow in the twinkling of an eye, and be off.&nbsp; I looked to see if there were any eggs scattered around the entrance to the burrow, but  I couldn&#8217;t find any.&nbsp; I watched this behaviour over and over again.&nbsp; Although I can&#8217;t be a hundred percent certain, I believe that when a bee fly darted down in the twinkling of an eye, it probably threw an egg right down into the burrow.&nbsp; It was fascinating  to watch.&nbsp; There were also a few very tiny bees with a shiny green thorax, which occasionally entered the burrow of the mining bees, and I was sure that this small bee was up to no good.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Courtney Smith sends a photo of a caterpillar found today in Estevan Village.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 383px;\" hasheight=\"false\" setwidth=\"383\" setheight=\"527\" originalheight=\"1652\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"IMG_20150409_113838.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image552733306145a.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Silver-spotted Tiger Moth <em>Lophocampa argentata<\/em><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Lep.: Erebidae &#8211; Arctiinae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Courtney Smith<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/body> <\/html> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 April 9 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Barbara McGrenere writes:&nbsp; About 4:30 yesterday afternoon, Mike and I took a short hike to the south slope of Mount Douglas to look for butterflies.&nbsp; There were eight Sara Orangetips &#8211; &nbsp;one stopped briefly on a low growing plant with purple &#8220;pea&#8221; type flowers.&nbsp; There was also one fast flying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137","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=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1750,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions\/1750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}