{"id":15941,"date":"2022-07-09T10:55:34","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T17:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15941"},"modified":"2022-07-10T12:43:19","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T19:43:19","slug":"2022-july-9-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15941","title":{"rendered":"2022 July 9 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 July 9 morning<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Aziza Cooper writes from Mount Tolmie on the evening of July 8: I saw eight species of butterfly: two each of <strong>Red Admiral<\/strong> and <strong>Lorquin&#8217;s Admiral<\/strong>, three each of <strong>Western Tiger Swallowtail <\/strong>and <strong>Painted Lady<\/strong>, and one each of <strong>Pale Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong>, <strong>Anise Swallowtail<\/strong> and <strong>Cabbage White<\/strong>. Down the hill there were at least four <strong>Essex Skippers<\/strong>.\u00a0 Aziza sends photographs of various creatures from Mount Tolmie and from Royal Roads University.<\/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\/J-Bfly-Essex-skipper-Royal-Rds-1b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"299\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Essex Skipper <em>Thymelicus lineola <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/J-Bfly-Anise-Mt-Tolmie-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"285\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Anise Swallowtail <em>Papilio zelicaon <\/em>(Lep.: Papilionidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/J-Bfly-Red-Adm-D-Mt-Tolmie-1b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"382\" height=\"285\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Red Admiral <em>Vanessa atalanta <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/J-Bfly-Red-Adm-V-Mt-Tolmie-1b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"374\" height=\"278\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Red Admiral <em>Vanessa atalanta <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/J-Bfly-Satyr-Comma-Royal-Rds-1b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"395\" height=\"292\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Satyr Comma <em>Polygonia satyrus <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/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\/Ladybird-pupa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"259\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ladybird beetle pupa (Col.: Coccinellidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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\/prob-syrphid.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"376\" height=\"247\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Probably a syrphid fly \u00a0(Dip.: Syrphidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/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\/J-Banana-slug-Royal-Rds-1b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"382\" height=\"278\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Banana Slug <em>Ariolimax columbianus <\/em>(Pul.: Arionidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Libby Avis sends photographs \u00a0from Port Alberni, July 8 and 9, of two moths new to Invertebrate Alert.\u00a0 Of <strong><em>Aphomia sociella <\/em><\/strong>she writes:\u00a0 It\u2019s an introduced species from Europe. Larvae develop inside nests of bees and wasps. Seems to be becoming more common in BC. I had never seen it here in Port Alberni until two weeks ago. Since then have had five of them at the light, most recently this morning (July 9<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Apamea-vultuosa-Port-Alberni-Home_MG_9149ar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"466\" height=\"453\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Apamea vultuosa <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Libby Avis<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Aphomia-sociella-Port-Alberni-Home_MG_1378ab.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"493\" height=\"514\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Aphomia sociella <\/em>(Lep.: Pyralidae)\u00a0 Libby Avis<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 July 9 morning \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Aziza Cooper writes from Mount Tolmie on the evening of July 8: I saw eight species of butterfly: two each of Red Admiral and Lorquin&#8217;s Admiral, three each of Western Tiger Swallowtail and Painted Lady, and one each of Pale Tiger Swallowtail, Anise Swallowtail and Cabbage White. Down the hill [&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-15941","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\/15941","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=15941"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15957,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15941\/revisions\/15957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}