{"id":17971,"date":"2023-04-23T16:26:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T23:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=17971"},"modified":"2023-04-24T19:34:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T02:34:14","slug":"2023-april-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=17971","title":{"rendered":"2023 April 23"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0\u00a0 Last year Ian Cooper found caterpillars of the Grey Hairstreak <\/b>butterfly on the flowers of Mentha <\/i>along the Galloping Goose Trail near Harriet Road.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum took one of them for rearing.\u00a0 Photographs of the caterpillar are to be found on the Invert Alert posting for 2022 September 29, and of the pupa, 2022 October 5.\u00a0 The adult butterfly emerged today, and was released by Jeremy and Ian where the caterpillar was found.\u00a0 Below is a \u201cstudio\u201d photograph of the underside by Jeremy.\u00a0\u00a0 After release, Ian managed to get photographs of the underside and upperside in a more natural setting, also shown below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Grey Hairstreak Strymon melinus <\/i>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0Grey Hairstreak Strymon melinus <\/i>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Grey Hairstreak Strymon melinus <\/i>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Val George photographed the moth below at his Oak Bay house this morning:<\/p>\n

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Sabulodes aegrotata\u00a0 <\/i>(Lep.:Geometridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Here are some photographs taken by Ian Cooper yesterday at Colquitz RiverPark.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Globular Springtail, possibly Ptenothrix palmata<\/i> (Collembola<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Symphypleona \u2013 Dicyrtomenidae)\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Ian Cooper<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Globular Springtail, possibly Ptenothrix palmata<\/i> (Collembola<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Symphypleona \u2013 Dicyrtomenidae)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ian Cooper<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Springtail – Orchesella cincta <\/i>(Coll.: Orchesellidae)<\/span>\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Lauria cylindracea<\/span><\/i> (Pul.: Lauriidae)<\/span> \u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Deroceras panormitanum<\/span><\/i> (Pul.: Agriolimacidae)<\/span> \u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Armadillidium vulgare\u00a0 <\/i>(Isopoda: Armadillidiidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Philoscia muscorum<\/span><\/i> (Isopoda: Oniscidae)<\/span> \u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/span><\/p>\n

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  2023 April 23 St George\u2019s Day   \u00a0\u00a0 Last year Ian Cooper found caterpillars of the Grey Hairstreak butterfly on the flowers of Mentha along the Galloping Goose Trail near Harriet Road.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum took one of them for rearing.\u00a0 Photographs of the caterpillar are to be found on the Invert Alert posting for […]<\/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-17971","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\/17971","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=17971"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17990,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17971\/revisions\/17990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}