{"id":1172,"date":"2015-04-20T02:56:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T09:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:38:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:38:08","slug":"april-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=1172","title":{"rendered":"April 19"},"content":{"rendered":"

2015 April 19<\/strong><\/p>\n

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   <\/strong>Aziza Cooper writes:<\/p>\n

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We are beginning the 2015 Butterfly Count season.  As always, the count period is from the 3rd Saturday to the 4th Sunday – nine days.  A warm spring has already brought the butterflies out.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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To submit your results, please log in to the Victoria Natural History site using the link<\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/website\/index.php <\/a>
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Then look for “Popular Items” on the right hand side, and click on “Butterfly Count”.<\/p>\n

Submit a separate form for each area you count, so I can take the higher number in case of double counting.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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If you’d like a suggestion about what area to count, send me an email.  tanageraz at yahoo.com
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Please let me know if you want to be removed from this list. If you know of anyone who would like to be added, please give them my email address.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Thanks for submitting your sightings, and happy counting!  <\/strong><\/p>\n

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The monthly butterfly walk is held on the first Sunday of each month – May 3rd is the next walk. We start at the summit of <\/strong>Mount<\/strong>Tolmie<\/strong> at 1pm, and decide where to go from there. The walk will be cancelled if the weather is cool or rainy. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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   <\/strong>Aziza also writes:  Today, Rick Schortinghuis and I found all three species of elfins<\/strong>, and six other species at Camas Hill. We saw the first Pale Swallowtail<\/strong> of the season. We also saw a very interesting moth, a Fairy Longhorn<\/strong>, with black and white barred wings and antennae far longer than its body.<\/p>\n

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Two-banded Checkered Skipper – 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pale Swallowtail – 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cabbage White – 6<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sara Orangetip – 5<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brown (Western Elfin) – 4<\/strong><\/p>\n

Moss’s Elfin – 4<\/strong><\/p>\n

Western Pine Elfin – 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

Spring Azure – 8<\/strong><\/p>\n

comma species – 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

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One Mourning Cloak<\/strong> was seen by Moralea soon after we left and I went to Mount Tolmie and found a Painted Lady<\/strong> for my tenth species of the day.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Two-banded Skipper Pyrgus ruralis <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Fairy Longhorn Adela septentrionella <\/em>(Lep.: Incurvariidae)  Aziza Cooper<\/div>\n

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   <\/strong>Bill Katz writes:  I found a Cedar Hairstreak<\/strong> on Summit Hill on Sunday afternoon, April 19.  Also seen were a Painted Lady<\/strong>, two Western Brown Elfins<\/strong> and many Western Spring Azures <\/strong>and Cabbage Whites.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"Cedar Hairstreak Mitoura rosneri <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Bill Katz<\/div>\n

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   Jeremy Tatum sends a picture of a snail from the Blenkinsop Valley, and a beetle from Bow Park, April 19.   Thank you, Scott Gilmore, for identifying the beetle for me.<\/p>\n

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Cepaea nemoralis <\/em>(Pul.: Helicidae)   Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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Enoclerus eximius<\/em> (Col.: Cleridae)   Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n

   Karen Ferguson writes that the Propertius Duskywings<\/strong> that she saw (see April 19) were not ovipositing, but were really probing the Garry Oak buds with their proboscides. This is most interesting behaviour.  Has anyone else noticed it?  I wonder what they are getting from the almost-open buds.<\/p>\n

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2015 April 19      Aziza Cooper writes:    We are beginning the 2015 Butterfly Count season.  As always, the count period is from the 3rd Saturday to the 4th Sunday – nine days.  A warm spring has already brought the butterflies out.   To submit your results, please log in to the Victoria Natural History site using the link […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172","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\/1172","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=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1743,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions\/1743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}