{"id":15631,"date":"2022-05-22T11:55:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T18:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15631"},"modified":"2022-05-22T11:58:11","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T18:58:11","slug":"2022-may-22-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15631","title":{"rendered":"2022 May 22 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 May 22 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Gordon Hart writes:&nbsp; We walked along the Prospect Road to Munn Road power lines on May 21 and saw at least 50 <strong>Western Spring Azures<\/strong>. There were several groups gathered at damp spots along the path. We also saw at least seven<strong><em> Epirrhoe plebeculata<\/em><\/strong> moths. There were also several dragonflies and damselflies, but no other butterfly species.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; We also saw thousands of <strong>honey bees<\/strong> forming a swarm in a bush near Munn Road. When we first saw them they were in the air over quite a large area, and later the group had formed a compact swarm on a branch of the bush. &nbsp;I wonder how long they will stay there, and where they will end up?&nbsp; At home, we had a variety of butterflies: two <strong>Green Commas<\/strong>; two <strong>Mourning Cloaks<\/strong> chasing one another; a fresh <strong>Western Brown Elfin<\/strong>; and several <strong>Western Spring Azures<\/strong>. &nbsp;We saw one <strong>Pacific Forktail <\/strong>damselfly<strong>,<\/strong> <strong><em>Ischnura cervula<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Jeff Gaskin writes:&nbsp; On May 21, I found a <strong>Mourning Cloak<\/strong>, 3 <strong>Satyr Commas<\/strong> and 3 <strong>Western Spring<\/strong> <strong>Azures<\/strong> north and south of Blenkinsop Lake.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; <strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>On May 21 I walked along the Panhandle Trail, off Munn Road, ans I saw a <strong>Western Brown Elfin,<\/strong> a <strong>Propertius&nbsp; Duskywing<\/strong>, a <strong>Green Comma<\/strong> as well as several <strong>Western Spring Azures <\/strong>and <strong>Sara Orangetips.&nbsp; <\/strong>In the evening, at 5:15 pm, there was a rather worn <strong>Red Admiral<\/strong> on the Mount Tolmie reservoir.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Caterpillars of&nbsp; the <strong>Silver-spotted Tiger Moth<\/strong> are abundant and ubiquitous at present, so I took the opportunity of photographing one at UVic.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_4172.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"733\" height=\"506\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Lophocampa argentata <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae &ndash; Arctiinae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 May 22 morning &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Gordon Hart writes:&nbsp; We walked along the Prospect Road to Munn Road power lines on May 21 and saw at least 50 Western Spring Azures. There were several groups gathered at damp spots along the path. We also saw at least seven Epirrhoe plebeculata moths. There were also several dragonflies [&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-15631","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\/15631","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=15631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15633,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15631\/revisions\/15633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}