{"id":15821,"date":"2022-06-26T17:23:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T00:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15821"},"modified":"2022-07-03T15:42:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T22:42:08","slug":"2022-may-26-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15821","title":{"rendered":"2022 June 26 afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 June 26 afternoon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 This morning I saw my first <strong>Lorquin\u2019s Admiral <\/strong>of the year, at Rithet\u2019s Bog.<strong> \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>And this afternoon at 4:00 pm there were several <strong>Lorquin\u2019s Admirals <\/strong>and <strong>Anise, Western Tiger <\/strong>and <strong>Pale Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong> flying around the <em>Philadelphus<\/em> \u00a0bush at the entrance to the Mount Tolmie reservoir.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon Hart writes:\u00a0 I went up Knockan Hill yesterday (June 25) and I actually saw a few butterflies: four <strong>Lorquin&#8217;s Admirals<\/strong>, a <strong>Western Spring Azure<\/strong>, four <strong>Western Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong>, and <strong>one Pale Tiger Swallowtail.\u00a0 <\/strong>Later, I went to Fort Rodd Hill, and saw no butterflies at all. I think they will have more later in the season.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t have any more butterfly photos, but I am enclosing a fly from Knockan Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum responds:\u00a0 I don\u2019t know the exact species of fly \u2013 a specialist should be able to tell from Gordon\u2019s photograph \u2013 but I believe it is a bombyliid of the genus <strong><em>Anthrax.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Fly.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"822\" height=\"641\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Anthrax <\/em>sp. (Dip.: Bombyliidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at this spectacular video by Rosemary Jorna of a caterpillar of a <strong>Ceanothus Silk Moth <em>Hyalophora euryalus<\/em> <\/strong>eating Hardhack:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/uz5mpvd7uq9uq2d\/P6263169.mov?dl=0\">https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/uz5mpvd7uq9uq2d\/P6263169.mov?dl=0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 June 26 afternoon \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 This morning I saw my first Lorquin\u2019s Admiral of the year, at Rithet\u2019s Bog. \u00a0\u00a0And this afternoon at 4:00 pm there were several Lorquin\u2019s Admirals and Anise, Western Tiger and Pale Tiger Swallowtails flying around the Philadelphus \u00a0bush at the entrance to the Mount Tolmie reservoir. Gordon [&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-15821","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\/15821","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=15821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15872,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15821\/revisions\/15872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}