{"id":15783,"date":"2022-06-23T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15783"},"modified":"2022-06-23T17:07:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T00:07:22","slug":"2022-june-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15783","title":{"rendered":"2022 June 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 June 23<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeff Gaskin writes:&nbsp; I saw 3 <strong>Mourning&nbsp; Cloaks<\/strong> in three completely different spots on June 22, at Blenkinsop Lake.&nbsp; Also, at the south end of the Blenkinsop Lake bridge amongst the stinging nettles was a <strong>Red Admiral<\/strong>.&nbsp; At Swan Lake I finally saw my first of the year <strong>Lorquin&#8217;s Admiral<\/strong>.&nbsp; I saw two there as well as a rather late <strong>Western Spring Azure<\/strong>,&nbsp; 5 <strong>Western Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong> and 2 <strong>Cabbage Whites<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Kirsten Mills told me she saw an <strong>Anise Swallowtail<\/strong> at the top of Observatory Hill on June 22.&nbsp; Also there included 7 <strong>Pale Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong>, 3 <strong>Western Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong>, a <strong>Red Admiral<\/strong>, a <strong>Painted Lady<\/strong>, 2 <strong>Western Spring Azures<\/strong>, a <strong>Cabbage White<\/strong>, and 2 <strong>Lorquin&#8217;s Admirals<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Aziza Cooper sends photographs of a butterfly and a bee from James Heights, June 23:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/C-Bfly-Pale-Sw-tail-James-Hts-1b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"657\" height=\"486\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Pale Tiger Swallowtail <em>Papilio eurymedon <\/em>(Lep.: Papilionidae)&nbsp; Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/C-Insect-bee-James-Hts-1b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"699\" height=\"526\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Honey Bee <em>Apis mellifera <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae)&nbsp; Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum sends a photograph of a moth reared from an egg found on <em>Mahonia<\/em> at Munn Road, May 25:<\/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\/06\/Coryphista-meadii-ad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"925\" height=\"600\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Coryphista meadii <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 June 23 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeff Gaskin writes:&nbsp; I saw 3 Mourning&nbsp; Cloaks in three completely different spots on June 22, at Blenkinsop Lake.&nbsp; Also, at the south end of the Blenkinsop Lake bridge amongst the stinging nettles was a Red Admiral.&nbsp; At Swan Lake I finally saw my first of the year Lorquin&#8217;s Admiral.&nbsp; I [&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-15783","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\/15783","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=15783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}