{"id":16148,"date":"2022-08-02T16:56:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T23:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16148"},"modified":"2022-08-02T16:57:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T23:57:26","slug":"2022-august-2-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16148","title":{"rendered":"2022 August 2 afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2022 August 2 afternoon<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/strong>   <\/strong>On July 15 we showed a photograph of a tiny Red Admiral <\/strong> caterpillar.  On July 29 we showed what progress it had made by July 27.  (It was already a chrysalis.)  Let’s have a look and see if it has made any further progress today:<\/p>\n

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

It has emerged as an adult!   Unfortunately,  I had an appointment to keep and I was unable to spend the time to get a photograph of its beautiful upperside.  I released the butterfly on Buddleia in the Finnerty Gardens at UVic.   I saw two Woodland Skippers <\/strong>in the Gardens – the first I have seen this year.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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   <\/strong>Jochen Möhr writes from Metchosin:  This morning’s lonely visitor at the light was what I think is Spargania magniolata<\/em>.  <\/strong>[Libby Avis agrees!]<\/p>\n

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Spargania magniolata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr<\/p>\n

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  Jeff Gaskin writes: <\/p>\n

  Kirsten Mills and I drove a lot around the Nanaimo logging roads yesterday, August 1st.  On Northwest Bay logging road we found 3 Hydaspe Fritillaries, 5 Common Wood Nymphs, 6 Pale<\/strong> and 4 Western Tiger Swallowtails <\/strong>and 17 Lorquin’s Admirals.<\/strong><\/p>\n

  On the roads up Mount Cokeley, we found an Anna’s Blue, 11 Hydaspe Fritillaries, 3 Pale <\/strong>and 7 Western Tiger Swallowtails, 2 Mourning Cloaks,  1 Satyr Comma and 10 Lorquin’s Admirals<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

 Today, I saw a Western Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong> in Esquimalt Gorge Park.  Dragonflies I saw also in the park included a female Western Pondhawk<\/strong>, and a Blue-eyed Darner<\/strong>. I also saw a Common Whitetail<\/strong> along the Northwest Bay logging road.<\/p>\n

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2022 August 2 afternoon     On July 15 we showed a photograph of a tiny Red Admiral  caterpillar.  On July 29 we showed what progress it had made by July 27.  (It was already a chrysalis.)  Let’s have a look and see if it has made any further progress today: Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta (Lep.: […]<\/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-16148","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\/16148","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=16148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}