{"id":15575,"date":"2022-05-09T17:26:13","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T00:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15575"},"modified":"2022-05-13T16:39:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T23:39:29","slug":"2022-may-8-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15575","title":{"rendered":"2022 May 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 May 9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0 Just a couple of butterflies of note seen in the last two days.\u00a0 First of all a <strong>Western<\/strong> <strong>Spring Azure<\/strong> seen on the Royal Roads University grounds.\u00a0 It was seen while on the VNHS birding trip there.\u00a0 Today,\u00a0 May 9, a <strong>Mourning Cloak<\/strong> was in the south east corner of Panama Flats which was also where it was, the same spot, a few days ago when Geoffrey Newell saw it<\/p>\n<p>Val George writes:\u00a0 On May 8, I saw my first <strong>Red Admiral<\/strong> of the season. It was on the reservoir at Mount Tolmie. And for viewers of this site who may not have seen the short write-up I did for the most recent issue of the VNHS Newsletter, this past winter I put together a website called <strong>Vancouver Island Butterflies &#8211; a Photographic Guide<\/strong>. It can be found most easily by going to vancouverislandbutterflies.com.\u00a0\u00a0 [See also the April 30 entry on this site \u2013 Jeremy Tatum.]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Red-Admiral-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"822\" height=\"568\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Red Admiral <em>Vanessa atalanta\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rosemary Jorna writes:\u00a0 A micro moth and \u00a0a small fly from the Galloping Goose yesterday \u00a0between Charters and Tod Creek trestles.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 The moth is <strong><em>Adela trigrapha<\/em>, <\/strong>but I\u2019m afraid I don\u2019t even know the Family of the fly!\u00a0 If any viewer can help, please do so!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P5082092.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"844\" height=\"633\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Adela trigrapha <\/em>(Lep.: Adelidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P5082096.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"807\" height=\"706\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Unknown dipteran\u00a0\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 May 9 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0 Just a couple of butterflies of note seen in the last two days.\u00a0 First of all a Western Spring Azure seen on the Royal Roads University grounds.\u00a0 It was seen while on the VNHS birding trip there.\u00a0 Today,\u00a0 May 9, a Mourning Cloak was in the south east [&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-15575","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\/15575","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=15575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15596,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15575\/revisions\/15596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}