{"id":13985,"date":"2021-05-17T16:28:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T23:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13985"},"modified":"2021-06-07T15:28:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T22:28:02","slug":"may-17-afternoon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13985","title":{"rendered":"May 17 afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 May 17 afternoon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jochen M\u00f6hr writes that on May 14 he saw three <strong>Propertius Duskywings <\/strong>at Weir&#8217;s Beach, two of them <em>in copula<\/em>.\u00a0 He also writes:\u00a0 I constantly see <strong><em>P. rapae<\/em><\/strong> \u00a0\u2013 up to three simultaneously on my Metchosin property.\u00a0 I also saw <strong>Western Spring Azures<\/strong> on three occasions, without being able to document any of them, and similarly one <strong>Sara Orangetip<\/strong> and one <strong>Pale Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong>, each on one occasion since the beginning of May.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On May 16, he saw on his Metchosin property<\/p>\n<p><strong>1 <\/strong><strong><em>Erynnis propertius<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2 <\/strong><strong><em>Papilio eurymedon<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1 <\/strong><strong><em>Papilio zelicaon<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1 <\/strong><strong><em>Meganola minuscula<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1 <\/strong><strong><em>Nadata gibbosa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1 <\/strong><strong><em>Smerinthus ophthalmica <\/em><\/strong>(the third one this season, all different individuals)<\/p>\n<p><strong>2 <\/strong><strong><em>Lobophora nivigerata\/magnoliatoidea<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 448px; 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\/05\/pastedImage-54.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Propertius Duskywings <em>Erynnis propertius <\/em> (Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 436px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.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-55.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Meganola minuscula <\/em>(Lep.: Nolidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 525px; 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-56.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Nadata gibbosa <\/em>(Lep.: Notodontidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 669px; 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\/05\/pastedImage-57.png\" width=\"597.6\" height=\"396.6134529147982\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Smerinthus ophthalmica <\/em>(Lep.: Sphingidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 461px; 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\/05\/pastedImage-58.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Lobophora nivigerata\/magnoliatoidea <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0 Yesterday, May 16, I did my butterfly count at the Lochside trail north and south of Blenkinsop Lake.\u00a0 I found a <strong>Red Admiral<\/strong> and a <strong>Satyr Comma<\/strong> by a patch of nettles\u00a0about 100 metres south of the bridge.\u00a0 Another <strong>Satyr Comma<\/strong> was north of the lake.\u00a0 I also saw a <strong>Pale Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong> along Arbutus Road later in the day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 May 17 afternoon \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr writes that on May 14 he saw three Propertius Duskywings at Weir&#8217;s Beach, two of them in copula.\u00a0 He also writes:\u00a0 I constantly see P. rapae \u00a0\u2013 up to three simultaneously on my Metchosin property.\u00a0 I also saw Western Spring Azures on three occasions, without being able [&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-13985","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\/13985","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=13985"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14161,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13985\/revisions\/14161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}