{"id":14039,"date":"2021-05-23T19:59:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T02:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14039"},"modified":"2021-05-23T20:06:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T03:06:30","slug":"may-23-evening-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14039","title":{"rendered":"May 23 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"
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      <\/strong>Moths of the geometrid genus Eupithecia <\/em>are called “pugs”.  Most of the caterpillars feed on flowers.  Here is one from near Blenkinsop Lake on a flower of Rosa nutkana<\/em>.  In Klaus Bolte’s 1990 study of 62 species of pugs in Canada, he lists Rosa <\/em>as the foodplant of only one species:  E. maestosa<\/em>.  Whether the one in this photograph is this species, we shall have to wait and see.<\/p>\n

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Eupithecia <\/em>sp. (Lep.: Geometridae)    Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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   Diane Crowther reports seeing a Two-banded (Checkered or Grizzled) Skipper <\/strong>Pyrgus ruralis<\/em><\/strong> <\/strong>on May 16, fluttering along along above and landing on the dirt tracks which follow the hydro line near the south border of the Hartland Mountain Bike Park.<\/p>\n

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  Rosemary Jorna reports that she had only a brief hour at the Sooke Potholes on May 21.  She saw 2 Western Spring Azures, <\/strong> <\/strong>3 or more Pale Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong> and this Mylitta Crescent<\/strong>. The blue posed nicely but the Myllita Cresent led her a merry dance.<\/p>\n

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

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Mylitta Crescent Phyciodes mylitta <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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   The Grizzled Skipper and Mylitta Crescent are nice sightings – these two species are not seen here all that often these days. <\/p>\n

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2021 May 23 evening         Moths of the geometrid genus Eupithecia are called “pugs”.  Most of the caterpillars feed on flowers.  Here is one from near Blenkinsop Lake on a flower of Rosa nutkana.  In Klaus Bolte’s 1990 study of 62 species of pugs in Canada, he lists Rosa as the foodplant of only […]<\/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-14039","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\/14039","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=14039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}