{"id":15666,"date":"2022-05-27T17:42:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T00:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15666"},"modified":"2022-05-27T17:47:34","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T00:47:34","slug":"2022-may-27-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15666","title":{"rendered":"2022 May 27 afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 May 27 afternoon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Viewers may recall Rosemary Jorna&rsquo;s photograph of a <strong>Ceanothus Silk Moth <em>Hyalophora euryalus <\/em><\/strong>ovipositing, May 6.&nbsp; Rosemary writes that the caterpillars have now hatched, and she sends photographs of the tiny first-instar caterpillars feeding on Thimbleberry <em>Rubus parviflorus.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P5262694.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"822\" height=\"616\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Hyalophora euryalus <\/em>(Lep.: Saturniidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&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\/P5272719.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"823\" height=\"617\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Hyalophora euryalus <\/em>(Lep.: Saturniidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&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\/P5272724.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"820\" height=\"615\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Hyalophora euryalus <\/em>(Lep.: Saturniidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;Jody Wells sends photographs of a dragonfly from Pendray Farm, near Victoria Airport, May 25.&nbsp; Dr Rob Cannings writes:&nbsp; This is a female <strong>Cardinal Meadowhawk &nbsp;<em>Sympetrum illotum<\/em><\/strong>. Note the brown marks at the base of the wings and the white lateral thoracic spots. &nbsp;Just the right time for them to be appearing, although the first ones might have been a bit late this cool spring. This one has recently emerged, thus the muted colours and the rather filmy wings. Looks healthy and intact, though.<\/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\/DSCN2334-Copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"805\" height=\"742\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Sympetrum illotum <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)&nbsp; Jody Wells<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&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\/DSCN2316-Copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"773\" height=\"717\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Sympetrum illotum <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)&nbsp; Jody Wells<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes that there was a <strong>Painted Lady <\/strong>(butterfly) on the Mount Tolmie reservoir at 4:45 this afternoon.&nbsp; [Viewers of this site will have learned recently (May 21) that there is also such a thing as a Painted Lady beetle!]<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 May 27 afternoon &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Viewers may recall Rosemary Jorna&rsquo;s photograph of a Ceanothus Silk Moth Hyalophora euryalus ovipositing, May 6.&nbsp; Rosemary writes that the caterpillars have now hatched, and she sends photographs of the tiny first-instar caterpillars feeding on Thimbleberry Rubus parviflorus. &nbsp; Hyalophora euryalus (Lep.: Saturniidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna &nbsp; Hyalophora euryalus (Lep.: Saturniidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; [&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-15666","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\/15666","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=15666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}