{"id":15829,"date":"2022-06-27T16:45:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T23:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15829"},"modified":"2022-06-27T16:47:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T23:47:58","slug":"2022-june-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15829","title":{"rendered":"2022 June 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 June 27<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Devon Parker reports some butterflies from the 410 m (1345 ft) summit of Mount McDonald in Langford, June 24:<\/p>\n<p>One <strong>Grey Hairstreak<\/strong> (hill-topping)<\/p>\n<p>One <strong>Propertius Duskywing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One <strong>Western Spring Azure<\/strong> (male)<\/p>\n<p>One <strong>Western Spring Azure<\/strong> (female)<\/p>\n<p>and a <strong>Propertius Duskywing<\/strong> nectaring on <em>Triteleia hyacinthina <\/em>at 350 m (1148 ft) on the east slope.<\/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\/image1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"351\" height=\"362\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Grey Hairstreak <em>Strymon melinus <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)&nbsp; Devon Parker<\/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\/image0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"317\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Propertius Duskywing <em>Erynnis propertius <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)&nbsp; Devon Parker<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum sends a photograph of a moth reared from an egg found on <em>Mahonia<\/em> on Mount Tolmie, May 29:<\/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-ad2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"606\" height=\"404\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Coryphista meadii <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Compare this moth with a different colour variety of the same species shown on June 23.&nbsp; Compare it also with <em>Triphosa haesitata<\/em> shown on June 5.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeff Gaskin writes:&nbsp; I went out in the stifling heat yesterday afternoon, June 26, to Ten Mile Point.&nbsp; I did find a few butterflies, among them a <strong>Red Admiral<\/strong> along Arbutus Road in a batch of Armenian Blackberry flowers.&nbsp; Also at this location was a <strong>Pale Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong>. Another <strong>Pale Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong> was further along Arbutus Road, and still another was on Sea View Road, &nbsp;where I also saw a <strong>Western Tiger<\/strong> <strong>Swallowtail<\/strong>.&nbsp; Oddly enough I didn&#8217;t see either Cabbage White or Lorquin&#8217;s Admiral on the Point.&nbsp; Another <strong>Western Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong> was along Cadboro Bay Road near Sinclair Road,&nbsp;and another <strong>Pale Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong> was on Haro Road.&nbsp; A <strong>Lorquin&#8217;s Admiral<\/strong> was at my mother&#8217;s house on Wascana Street in the Gorge neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 June 27 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Devon Parker reports some butterflies from the 410 m (1345 ft) summit of Mount McDonald in Langford, June 24: One Grey Hairstreak (hill-topping) One Propertius Duskywing One Western Spring Azure (male) One Western Spring Azure (female) and a Propertius Duskywing nectaring on Triteleia hyacinthina at 350 m (1148 ft) on the [&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-15829","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\/15829","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=15829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}