{"id":15620,"date":"2022-05-21T13:17:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T20:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15620"},"modified":"2022-05-27T12:48:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T19:48:17","slug":"2022-may-21-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15620","title":{"rendered":"2022 May 21 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 May 21 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Aziza Cooper writes:\u00a0 On May 20 I did a hike on the Sugarloaf Trail in the Sooke Hills Regional Park. I found four <strong>Western Pine Elfins<\/strong>, one <strong>California Tortoiseshell<\/strong> and a few <strong>Western Spring Azures<\/strong>\u00a0in two locations on high slopes. At the beginning of the trail near a creek there was one <strong>Mourning Cloak<\/strong> and five more <strong>Western Spring Azures<\/strong>. The trailhead is along Sooke Road west of Humpback Road.\u00a0 One <strong>millepede<\/strong> was also along the trail.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/B-Bfly-Pine-Elfin-1b.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Western Pine Elfin <em>Incisalia eryphon <\/em><em>(Lep,: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/B-Bfly-Spr-Azure-Sooke-Hills-Park-2b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"436\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Western Spring Azure <em>Celastrina echo<\/em> (Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/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\/B-Bfly-CA-Tortoiseshell-Sooke-Hills-Park-2b1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" height=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">California Tortoiseshell <em>Nymphalis californica <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/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\/B-Bfly-Mourning-Cloak-Sooke-Hills-Park-1b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"654\" height=\"493\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mourning Cloak <em>Nymphalis antiopa <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)<\/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\/B-Insect-Sooke-Hills-Park-1b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"453\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cyanide Millepede <em>Harpaphe haydeniana <\/em>(Polydesmida \u2013 Xystodesmidae) \u00a0Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Barb McGrenere writes:\u00a0 Yesterday, Mike and I saw one fresh <strong>Mourning Cloak<\/strong> in a willow at the north end of Blenkinsop bridge.\u00a0 (Probably not the same one that Aziza saw! \u2013 Jeremy T)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum sends a photograph of a beetle found at UVic.\u00a0 Thanks to Scott Gilmore for identifying it as the <strong>Painted Lady Beetle <\/strong><em>Mulsantina picta<\/em>.<\/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\/IMG_4168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"626\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Painted Lady Beetle <em>Mulsantina picta <\/em>(Col.: Coccinellidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 May 21 morning \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Aziza Cooper writes:\u00a0 On May 20 I did a hike on the Sugarloaf Trail in the Sooke Hills Regional Park. I found four Western Pine Elfins, one California Tortoiseshell and a few Western Spring Azures\u00a0in two locations on high slopes. At the beginning of the trail near a creek there [&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-15620","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\/15620","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=15620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15662,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15620\/revisions\/15662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}