{"id":14240,"date":"2021-06-19T09:29:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T16:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14240"},"modified":"2021-07-01T13:08:10","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T20:08:10","slug":"june-19-morning-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14240","title":{"rendered":"June 19 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2021 June 19 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>June Butterfly Count.\u00a0 Message from Gordon Hart.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hello, Butterfly Enthusiasts ,<\/p>\n<p>The June count period starts today, Saturday June 19 until Sunday June 27. This is an informal census of butterfly numbers and species in Greater Victoria. The area is defined by the Christmas Bird Count circle, extending from Victoria to Brentwood Bay and Island View Road in Central Saanich, and west to Happy Valley and Triangle Mountain, and Langford Lake and Goldstream areas.<\/p>\n<p>You can submit a count any time over the count period, just use a separate form for each count and location. In the case of repeat or duplicate counts, I will use the higher numbers. To submit counts, please use the form on the VNHS website at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=33\">https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=33<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you have difficulty with the form, please send me an email with the information.<\/p>\n<p>Thank-you for submitting your sightings and good luck with your count.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon<\/p>\n<p>Gordon Hart,<\/p>\n<p>Butterfly Count Coordinator,<\/p>\n<p>Victoria Natural History Society<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes: \u00a0Yesterday, June 18, I saw the first moth at the light at my apartment door in Saanich since March, and it turned out to be just one of the abundant lackey moths or an adult \u201ctent caterpillar\u201d, <em>Malacosoma <\/em>sp.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The question is: Which one?\u00a0\u00a0 Last July I tried to photograph both sexes of both <em>Malacosoma<\/em>s, though I never succeeded in photographing a male <em>M. disstria<\/em>.\u00a0 This one is a male <strong><em>Malacosoma californicum<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14276\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/June-19-1MC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/June-19-1MC.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/June-19-1MC-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Malacosoma californicum <\/em>(Lep.: Lasiocampidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 I brought in some Stinging Nettle for some Satyr Comma caterpillars that I am rearing, and I got an unexpected surprise when I found another caterpillar, shown below, on the nettles.\u00a0 Followers of this site will not need to be told what genus this caterpillar belongs to.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14277\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/June-19-2C.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/June-19-2C.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/June-19-2C-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Hypena californica <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae &#8211; Hypeninae) \u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cheryl Hoyle Sends a photograph of a caterpillar she found on a willow in her back yard in View Royal yesterday:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14278\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/June-19-3WS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/June-19-3WS.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/June-19-3WS-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">White Satin Moth <em>Leucoma salicis <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Lymantriinae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 2021 June 19 morning \u00a0 June Butterfly Count.\u00a0 Message from Gordon Hart. \u00a0 Hello, Butterfly Enthusiasts , The June count period starts today, Saturday June 19 until Sunday June 27. This is an informal census of butterfly numbers and species in Greater Victoria. The area is defined by the Christmas Bird Count circle, extending [&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-14240","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\/14240","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=14240"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14441,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14240\/revisions\/14441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}