{"id":16357,"date":"2022-08-25T10:34:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T17:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16357"},"modified":"2022-08-28T21:16:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T04:16:57","slug":"2022-august-24-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16357","title":{"rendered":"2022 August 24 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2022 August 24 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Mike Yip writes from Nanoose:\u00a0 Common Woodnymphs<\/strong> were about two weeks late but I finally found a few in my yard on August 22. That inspired me to make a quick visit to Mount Washington on August 23 to look for a few butterflies. Great Arctics<\/strong> were still abundant, but it took a while to find one that wasn’t in poor condition. Other species seen were Common Branded Skipper<\/strong>, Hydaspe Fritillary<\/strong>, Anna’s Blue,<\/strong> Hoary Comma<\/strong>, , Purplish Copper, Mariposa Copper, Western Meadow Fritillary, Anise Swallowtail. Pine<\/strong> White, Cabbage<\/strong>, and Woodland Skipper<\/strong>. Also found a red and black dragonfly near Raven Lodge.<\/em><\/p>\n

Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I think most of us here in Victoria will be feeling pretty envious, and will agree that Mike has lots more butterflies up there than we have down here.\u00a0 We are pretty-well reduced here now to Cabbage Whites and Woodland Skippers.<\/p>\n

Jeremy continues:\u00a0 The dragonfly proved to be tricky to identify, but it has now been examined carefully by two dragonfly experts, Dr Rob Cannings and Dr Dennis Paulson, who conclude that this is only the second record for Vancouver Island of the Cherry-faced Meadowhawk Sympetrum internum.\u00a0<\/em> <\/strong>Congratulations to Mike are in order.<\/p>\n

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Common Woodnymph Cercyonis pegala <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae \u2013 Satyrinae)<\/p>\n

\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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Common Branded Skipper Hesperia comma <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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Common Branded Skipper Hesperia comma <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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Hoary Comma Polygonia gracilis <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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Mariposa Copper Lycaena mariposa <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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Great Arctic Oeneis nevadensis <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae \u2013 Satyrinae)\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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Anna\u2019s Blue Lycaeides anna <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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Anise Swallowtail Papilio zelicaon <\/em>(Lep.: Papilionidae)\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Sympetrum<\/em> internum<\/em> (Odo.: Libellulidae)<\/p>\n

Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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Jochen M\u00f6hr photographed the following moths from Metchosin this morning \u2013 kindly identified by Libby Avis<\/p>\n

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Cyclophora dataria\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Drepanulatrix <\/em>(possibly secundaria<\/em>) (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Neoalcis californiaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Neoalcis californiaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 The presumed second instar hawk moth caterpillar shown on August 16, and again on August 20 in its third instar, has now reached its fourth instar:<\/p>\n

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Smerinthus ophthalmica <\/em>(Lep.: \u00a0Sphingidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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2022 August 24 evening \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mike Yip writes from Nanoose:\u00a0 Common Woodnymphs were about two weeks late but I finally found a few in my yard on August 22. That inspired me to make a quick visit to Mount Washington on August 23 to look for a few butterflies. Great Arctics were still abundant, but […]<\/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-16357","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\/16357","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=16357"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16431,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16357\/revisions\/16431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}