{"id":13943,"date":"2021-05-11T09:09:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T16:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13943"},"modified":"2021-05-11T09:16:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T16:16:13","slug":"may-11-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13943","title":{"rendered":"May 11"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   <\/strong>Rosemary Jorna sends two photographs of an unknown caterpillar from a spruce tree near Kemp Lake.   <\/p>\n

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Unknown caterpillar  (Lep.: Geometridae)  Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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Unknown caterpillar  (Lep.: Geometridae)  Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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   Rosemary writes:  We were hiking in the Sooke Hills between Harbourview and YMC’s Camp Thunderbird and for the first time this year I saw butterflies – one swallowtail <\/strong>and one fresh comma.  <\/strong> Neither would co operate for the camera.  Single blues appeared at three locations but near the end of the hike four blues were active, and I was able to get a clear photo of one of them.  Two more blues were cruising round the garden at a friend’s home in the Kemp Lake area later in the afternoon. This was my first good butterfly day.<\/p>\n

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Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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   Jeremy Tatum sends two photographs of a caterpillar from Ocean Spray on Christmas Hill.<\/p>\n

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Tetracis jubararia <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)   Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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Tetracis jubararia <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)   Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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   Mr E writes from Mount Work Regional Park:  Could this be a leafhopper nymph?  I found it hiding in some bark and shedding its waxy posterior protrusions.   Jeremy Tatum responds:  I can’t say that I know  for sure, but I certainly can’t think of a better suggestion!<\/p>\n

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Probably leafhopper nymph (Hem.: Cicadellidae)   Mr E<\/p>\n

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2021 May 11 morning      Rosemary Jorna sends two photographs of an unknown caterpillar from a spruce tree near Kemp Lake.      Unknown caterpillar  (Lep.: Geometridae)  Rosemary Jorna     Unknown caterpillar  (Lep.: Geometridae)  Rosemary Jorna      Rosemary writes:  We were hiking in the Sooke Hills between Harbourview and YMC’s Camp Thunderbird […]<\/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-13943","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\/13943","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=13943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}