{"id":14014,"date":"2021-05-20T16:45:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T23:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14014"},"modified":"2021-05-30T13:32:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T20:32:59","slug":"may-20-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14014","title":{"rendered":"May 20 afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 May 20<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeff Gaskin saw 19 <strong>Ringlets <\/strong>today in Layritz Park or the disc playing field area,\u00a0 and 5 more at Markham Road by Viaduct Flats.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A <strong>Propertius Duskywing <\/strong>\u00a0was photographed by Greg McKillop on Mount Douglas this morning.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 510px; 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-66.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Propertius Duskywing <em>Erynnis propertius<\/em><em>\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Greg McKillop<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna writes:\u00a0 We took a walk at the Sooke Potholes today\u00a0 I was disappointed by the complete lack of butterflies. We\u00a0 came down to our favourite beach and there were a dozen or more Swallowtails flying about and puddling.\u00a0 \u00a0There were about 4 <strong>Western Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong> and 8 or more <strong>Pale Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong> &#8211; 3 to 8 puddling and the rest flying overland around the pool and beach. \u00a0We watched them for about a half hour. \u00a0They were gradually losing interest in that patch of wet sand.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 576px; 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-67.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Two Western Tiger Swallowtails <em>Papilio rutulus <\/em>and two Pale Tiger Swallowtails <em>P. eurymedon<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Lep.: Papilionidae) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 583px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.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-68.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">One Western Tiger Swallowtail <em>Papilio rutulus <\/em> and three Pale Tiger Swallowtails <em>P. eurymedon<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Lep.: Papilionidae) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 575px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image008.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-69.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<em>Philodromus<\/em> sp. (Ara.: Philodromidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 May 20 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeff Gaskin saw 19 Ringlets today in Layritz Park or the disc playing field area,\u00a0 and 5 more at Markham Road by Viaduct Flats. &nbsp; A Propertius Duskywing \u00a0was photographed by Greg McKillop on Mount Douglas this morning. &nbsp; Propertius Duskywing Erynnis propertius\u00a0 (Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Greg McKillop \u00a0\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna [&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-14014","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\/14014","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=14014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14091,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14014\/revisions\/14091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}