{"id":13970,"date":"2021-05-16T18:02:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T01:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13970"},"modified":"2021-05-20T12:06:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T19:06:01","slug":"may-16-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13970","title":{"rendered":"May 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 May 16<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Gordon Hart writes from Highlands:\u00a0 On May 14, I saw my first <strong>Western Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong> here at home. \u00a0On May 15, we had a <strong> Pale Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong>, at least three <strong>Cabbage Whites<\/strong>, at least two <strong>Western Spring Azures<\/strong>, and a <strong>Green Comma<\/strong>. \u00a0The photograph below is of a Green Comma, May 13.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 401px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pastedImage-45.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Green Comma <em>Polygonia faunus <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum writes: Yesterday I found a tiny first-instar caterpillar, just out of the egg, on willow along the Panhandle trail off Munn Road.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know what it is, but I&#8217;m speculating that it may be the caterpillar of a Green Comma.\u00a0 We may know better during its next instar.\u00a0 [Added later:\u00a0 It has subsequently been confirmed that the caterpillar is indeed that of a <strong>Green Comma.<\/strong>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 525px; 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\/05\/pastedImage-46.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0 Green Comma\u00a0<em>Polygonia faunus\u00a0<\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae) \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy continues:\u00a0 Here is the pupa of <strong><em>Tetracis jubararia<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pastedImage-47.png\" width=\"597.6\" height=\"408.9346153846154\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Tetracis jubararia <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 May 16 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Hart writes from Highlands:\u00a0 On May 14, I saw my first Western Tiger Swallowtail here at home. \u00a0On May 15, we had a Pale Tiger Swallowtail, at least three Cabbage Whites, at least two Western Spring Azures, and a Green Comma. \u00a0The photograph below is of a Green Comma, [&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-13970","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\/13970","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=13970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14005,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13970\/revisions\/14005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}