{"id":13807,"date":"2021-04-20T17:39:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T00:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13807"},"modified":"2021-04-20T17:46:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T00:46:22","slug":"april-20-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13807","title":{"rendered":"April 20"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  <\/strong>Megan Buchkowski sends a photograph today of Melanolophia imitata<\/em><\/strong> <\/strong>from the front door of the Swan Lake Nature House:<\/p>\n

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Melanolophia imitata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Megan Buchkowski<\/p>\n

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   Jochen M\u00f6hr saw the following at his Metchosin home this morning:<\/p>\n

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2 <\/strong>Emmelina monodactyla<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 <\/strong>Eupithecia<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 <\/strong>Hypena californica<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 <\/strong>Gluphisia severa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

4 <\/strong>Triphosa haesitata<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Hypena californica <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae – Hypeninae)  Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Eupithecia<\/em> sp. (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Triphosa haesitata<\/em>  Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Gluphisia severa <\/em>(Lep.: Notodontidae)  Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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   Jeremy Tatum writes that he saw his first Western Spring Azures<\/strong> of the year – two of them – at Swan Lake this morning. <\/p>\n

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  Val George writes:  I did my official April butterfly count for Mount Douglas and the surrounding area yesterday afternoon, April 19.  Result:  15 Cabbage Whites, 8 Sara Orangetips, 4 California Tortoiseshells, 2 Grey Hairstreaks, 1 Western Spring Azure<\/strong>.  I managed to get a photo of one of the hairstreaks.<\/p>\n

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Grey Hairstreak Strymon melinus <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Val George<\/p>\n

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   <\/strong>Kirsten Mills writes:  Jeff Gaskin and I went to Little Mountain in Parksville today. We had 1 Mourning<\/strong> Cloak <\/strong>and 1 Oreas Comma<\/strong>. On Kaye Road we had 3 Western Brown Elfins<\/strong>, 3 Western Pine Elfins<\/strong> and a comma sp<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Oreas Comma Polygonia oreas <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae) Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n

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Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa<\/em> (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n

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Western Brown Elfin Incisalia iroides <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae) Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n

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Western Pine Elfin Incisalia eryphon <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n

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   Yesterday Rosemary Jorna photographed a snakefly <\/strong>on Peden Bluff.  At one time snakeflies were included in the Order Neuroptera, but these days they have their own Order, Raphidioptera, and in our area they are distributed among several genera in two Families.  I haven’t yet learned how to identify them (writes Jeremy Tatum), although I think the one Rosemary photographed may be a species of Agulla <\/em> in the Family Raphidiidae.  If any viewer can help us with this, please let us know.<\/p>\n

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Snakefly, Raphidioptera   Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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Snakefly, Raphidioptera   Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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2021 April 20     Megan Buchkowski sends a photograph today of Melanolophia imitata from the front door of the Swan Lake Nature House:   Melanolophia imitata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Megan Buchkowski      Jochen M\u00f6hr saw the following at his Metchosin home this morning:   2 Emmelina monodactyla 1 Eupithecia 1 Hypena californica 1 Gluphisia […]<\/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-13807","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\/13807","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=13807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}