{"id":14249,"date":"2021-06-21T13:08:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T20:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14249"},"modified":"2021-06-27T10:44:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T17:44:46","slug":"june-21-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14249","title":{"rendered":"June 21"},"content":{"rendered":"

2021 June 21<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Dr Cara Gibson sends a photograph of a chrysalis of a Mourning Cloak<\/strong> that she found on a pepper plant on June 8.<\/p>\n

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Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)<\/p>\n

She also sends a photograph of a Polyphemus Moth,<\/strong> from just above the door of the Swan Lake Nature House on June 11.<\/p>\n

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Polyphemus Moth Antheraea polyphemus <\/em>(Lep.: Saturniidae)\u00a0 Cara Gibson<\/p>\n

Val George sends a photograph of a crab spider<\/strong> from his Oak Bay garden, June 20.<\/p>\n

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Crab spider Misumena vatia <\/em>(Ara.: Thomisidae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n

Aziza Cooper writes: \u00a0Yesterday, Sunday, June 20, I found at least four Field Crescents<\/strong> in an overgrown field near the Tsartlip Cemetery on West Saanich Road. Two of the Crescents were mating. \u00a0One Essex<\/strong> Skipper<\/strong> was also there.<\/p>\n

Access\u00a0to the field is from the back left corner of the cemetery area. \u00a0It is choked with hawthorn and blackberry canes, so dress in heavy fabrics! The path is a game trail which curves eventually to the left where there is an opening with the butterflies. The Tsartlip Cemetery is just south of the Our Lady of Assumption Church Cemetery.<\/p>\n

I didn’t visit the other known sites for Field Crescents, including Eddy’s Self Storage on Stelly’s Cross Road. \u00a0Next door to that site are two big new apartment buildings built on former fields.<\/p>\n

[Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 This butterfly has borne several scientific names.\u00a0 There are difficulties in frequently changing the name on this site, so we are retaining the name pratensis<\/em>.\u00a0 An alternative name is P. pulchella.<\/em>]<\/p>\n

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Field Crescent Phyciodes pratensis <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae) Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Field Crescents Phyciodes pratensis <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae) Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Field Crescents Phyciodes pratensis <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae) Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Essex Skipper Thymelicus lineola <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum sends a photograph of a caterpillar from a willow at Durrance Lake.\u00a0 The moth resulting from this caterpillar will spend the winter in the adult state, and will then be one of the first moths to herald in the spring next year \u2013 hence the name Herald<\/strong> for this moth.<\/p>\n

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Herald Moth\u00a0 Scoliopteryx libatrix <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Scoliopteryginae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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