{"id":15991,"date":"2022-07-15T17:47:51","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T00:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15991"},"modified":"2022-07-21T10:32:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T17:32:45","slug":"2022-july-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15991","title":{"rendered":"2022 July 15"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2022 July 15<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>July Butterfly Count<\/strong><\/p>\n

Message from Gordon Hart<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Hello Butterfly Counters,<\/p>\n

The July count period starts Saturday July 16 until Sunday July 24. This is an informal census of butterfly numbers and species in Greater Victoria. The area is defined by the Christmas Bird Count circle, extending from Victoria to Brentwood Bay and Island View Road in Central Saanich, and west to Happy Valley and Triangle Mountain, and Langford Lake and Goldstream areas.<\/p>\n

You can submit a count any time over the count period, just use a separate form for each count and location. In the case of repeat or duplicate counts, I will use the higher numbers. To submit counts, please use the form from the VNHS website at<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=33<\/a><\/p>\n

If you have difficulty with the form, just send me an email with the information.<\/p>\n

Thank-you for submitting your sightings and good luck with your count.<\/p>\n

Gordon<\/p>\n

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Gordon Hart,<\/p>\n

Butterfly Count Coordinator,<\/p>\n

Victoria Natural History Society<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 <\/strong>Kirsten Grove-White sends a photograph of one of our native emerald moths, Nemoria unitaria<\/em> <\/strong>from the Swan Lake Nature House today:<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/em>Nemoria unitaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Kirsten Grove-White<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 [Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I had initially mislabelled the above moth as N. darwiniata<\/em>, and I am grateful to Libby Avis for the correction.\u00a0 Libby writes:\u00a0 No red markings on the body and the lower line on the hindwing starts to curve upward just before it reaches the body, whereas in darwiniata<\/em> the line goes straight across to the body.]<\/p>\n

Jochen M\u00f6hr writes from his property in Metchosin:\u00a0 It looks as though the tent caterpillars – of which I counted at one time 19 colonies in the vegetation around this house – are finally ecloding.\u00a0 This morning, there were five of them on the floor of the deck under the black light.\u00a0\u00a0Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I believe that all three of the moths below are females.<\/p>\n

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Malacosoma californicum <\/em>(Lep.:\u00a0 Lasiocampidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Malacosoma californicum <\/em>(Lep.:\u00a0 Lasiocampidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum sends photographs of two very young caterpillars.\u00a0 The first one is from Mahonia <\/em>at Swan Lake; the second from\u00a0Urtica\u00a0<\/em>at Blenkinsop Lake.<\/p>\n

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Rusty Tussock or Vapourer Moth\u00a0 Orgyia antiqua <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Lymantriinae)<\/p>\n

\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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2022 July 15 \u00a0July Butterfly Count Message from Gordon Hart \u00a0Hello Butterfly Counters, The July count period starts Saturday July 16 until Sunday July 24. This is an informal census of butterfly numbers and species in Greater Victoria. The area is defined by the Christmas Bird Count circle, extending from Victoria to Brentwood Bay and […]<\/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-15991","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\/15991","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=15991"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16035,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15991\/revisions\/16035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}