{"id":13882,"date":"2021-04-29T18:00:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T01:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13882"},"modified":"2021-04-29T18:07:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T01:07:04","slug":"april-29-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13882","title":{"rendered":"April 29"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   <\/strong>Jochen M\u00f6hr’s moths from  Metchosin this morning.  Thanks to Libby Avis, as ever, for identifications.<\/p>\n

Jeremy Tatum writes:  According to the Index, we’ve had the first of these only once before on this site – and I can’t find the image!  Libby tells us that it is associated with oaks.<\/p>\n

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Meganola minuscula <\/em>(Lep.: Nolidae)  Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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

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American Lappet Moth Phyllodesma americana <\/em> (Lep.: Lasiocampidae)  Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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<\/em>Venusia obsoleta\/pearsalli <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Venusia obsoleta\/pearsalli <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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   Ron Flower writes: Out at the Goldstream River today April 29th<\/sup>, I got this shot of a water<\/strong> strider<\/strong> and a surprise visit from a Pale Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong>. Seems early to me for them? What do you think? Also at the Munn Road power line we saw many Western Spring Azures<\/strong> and a fly-by of a comma<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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  Jeremy Tatum writes: We usually have to wait until May for Pale Tiger Swallowwtails, but in 2016 the first was on April 21, and in 2015 the first was on April 19.<\/p>\n

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Pale Tiger Swallowtail  Papilio eurymedon <\/em> (Lep.: Papilionidae) Ron Flower<\/p>\n

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Water Strider (Hem.: Gerridae)  Ron Flower<\/p>\n

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   Jeremy Tatum writes:  This afternoon I saw a Satyr Comma <\/strong>(my first of the season) and two Mourning Cloaks <\/strong>along the Lochside trail north of Blenkinsop Lake.<\/p>\n

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2021 April 29      Jochen M\u00f6hr’s moths from  Metchosin this morning.  Thanks to Libby Avis, as ever, for identifications. Jeremy Tatum writes:  According to the Index, we’ve had the first of these only once before on this site – and I can’t find the image!  Libby tells us that it is associated with oaks. […]<\/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-13882","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\/13882","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=13882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}