{"id":15932,"date":"2022-07-08T11:53:53","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T18:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15932"},"modified":"2022-11-17T09:10:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T17:10:53","slug":"2022-july-8-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15932","title":{"rendered":"2022 July 8 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 July 8 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy writes:\u00a0 At 2:00 pm on July 7th, I stopped by Mount Tolmie for 30 minutes, hoping to find a Painted Lady. \u00a0This lovely bright, orange butterfly flew in for 10-15 seconds up at the summit, and was soon gone. \u00a0I thought to myself: \u201c That isn&#8217;t a \u00a0Painted Lady\u201d , \u00a0so I had to do some research to find out what it was. \u00a0Jeff Gaskin confirmed that it was a <strong>West Coast Lady<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 This is the first West Coast Lady reported to Invertebrate Alert since 2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Butterfly-West-Coast-Lady_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"430\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">West Coast Lady <em>Vanessa annabella <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae) Marie O&#8217;Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 The Woolly Bear caterpillar shown on May 30 produced this spectacular <strong>Garden Tiger Moth<\/strong> last night.\u00a0 I released it along Lochside Drive near Lohbrunner Road \u2013 and promptly found another caterpillar within yards of where I released the moth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/caja.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"509\" height=\"676\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Garden Tiger Moth <em>Arctia caja <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Arctiinae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jochen M\u00f6hr sends photographs of two moths from Metchosin this morning. The first below is familiar enough, but the second, identified for us by Libby Avis as <strong><em>Perizoma grandis<\/em><\/strong>, is a new species for this site, which was started in March 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/P1680688.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"621\" height=\"537\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Female <em>Malacosoma californicum <\/em>(Lep.: Lasiocampidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/P1680689.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"555\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Perizoma grandis\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 July 8 morning \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy writes:\u00a0 At 2:00 pm on July 7th, I stopped by Mount Tolmie for 30 minutes, hoping to find a Painted Lady. \u00a0This lovely bright, orange butterfly flew in for 10-15 seconds up at the summit, and was soon gone. \u00a0I thought to myself: \u201c That isn&#8217;t a \u00a0Painted [&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-15932","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\/15932","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=15932"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17198,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15932\/revisions\/17198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}