{"id":13774,"date":"2021-04-17T12:50:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T19:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13774"},"modified":"2021-04-17T13:04:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T20:04:42","slug":"april-17-morning-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13774","title":{"rendered":"April 17 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 April 17 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes that, at 5:30 pm on April 16, there were a <strong>California Tortoiseshell<\/strong> and a <strong>Mourning Cloak<\/strong> on the Mount Tolmie Reservoir.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Barbin sends a photograph of a cocoon of the <strong>Ceanothus Silk Moth <\/strong><strong><em>Hyalophora euryalus<\/em><\/strong> attached to an Ocean Spray twig.\u00a0 He spotted a second one on Manzanita.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 596px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/pastedImage-78.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ceanothus Silk Moth <em>Hyalophora euryalus <\/em>(Lep.: Saturniidae)\u00a0 Thomas Barbin<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum\u00a0 writes:\u00a0\u00a0 We have had recent photographs of three species of comma, so here&#8217;s an exercise &#8211; photographed by Ron Flower at the Goldstream River yesterday.\u00a0 Which one is it?\u00a0 Well, I think there&#8217;s really no doubt that this is a male <strong><em>Satyr Comma<\/em><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/pastedImage-79.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Male Satyr Comma <em>Polygonia satyrus <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Ron Flower<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/pastedImage-80.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Male Satyr Comma <em>Polygonia satyrus <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Ron Flower<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Ron and Nora also saw this bee, kindly identified for us by Annie Pang as a queen <strong><em>Bombus melanopygus<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 383px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/pastedImage-81.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Bombus melanopygus <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Ron Flower<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr photographed this moth in Metchosin last night.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image010.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/pastedImage-82.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Behrensia conchiformis <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 April 17 morning \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes that, at 5:30 pm on April 16, there were a California Tortoiseshell and a Mourning Cloak on the Mount Tolmie Reservoir. &nbsp; Thomas Barbin sends a photograph of a cocoon of the Ceanothus Silk Moth Hyalophora euryalus attached to an Ocean Spray twig.\u00a0 He spotted a [&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-13774","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\/13774","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=13774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13781,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13774\/revisions\/13781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}