{"id":18179,"date":"2023-05-12T17:35:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T00:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=18179"},"modified":"2023-05-12T18:25:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T01:25:05","slug":"2023-may-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=18179","title":{"rendered":"2023 May 12"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Apologies for recent problems with Invert Alert \u2013 my computer has been completely down for a few days.\u00a0 Although the computer isn\u2019t yet quite back to normal, I think I have enough to run Invert Alert again and to receive reports and photographs.<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0\u00a0 Sunday\u2019s sighting of a Milbert\u2019s Tortoiseshell led me to reflect upon how uncommon this butterfly has been in recent years.\u00a0\u00a0 It has not needed much effort for me to look up records from 2015 onward.\u00a0 It would require considerably more effort (although it could be done) to research records before this.\u00a0 This is unfortunate, because I believe that before 2015 it was not a rare butterfly, 2013 in particular being a good year for them. However, from 2015 onward, Invert Alert records have been as follows:<\/p>\n

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2015:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1\u00a0\u00a0 (but see below)<\/p>\n

2016:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3<\/p>\n

2017:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0<\/p>\n

2018:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1<\/p>\n

2019:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2<\/p>\n

2020;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1<\/p>\n

2021:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1<\/p>\n

2022:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0<\/p>\n

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In 2015, in addition to the one reported sighting of an adult butterfly, a batch of caterpillars was found during the Metchosin Bioblitz, this being the last year in which caterpillars were found.\u00a0 Six were taken and successfully reared and released from this batch.<\/p>\n

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The last time a photograph of a Milbert\u2019s Tortoiseshell appeared in Invert Alert was in 2016.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 Recent additional sightings of butterflies:\u00a0 At 5:00 pm on Tuesday May 9 there was a California Tortoiseshell <\/b>on the Mount Tolmie reservoir (it was there again on May 11), and a Red Admiral <\/b>(first reported sighting of the year) nectaring on Spanish Bluebells at the entrance to the reservoir. \u00a0\u00a0Also on May 9,\u00a0 Aziza Cooper photographed a Mourning Cloak <\/b>(shown below)at Rithet\u2019s Bog.\u00a0 And on May 10 a Mourning Cloak <\/b>was at Swan Lake.\u00a0 \u00a0On May 11, three Sara Orangetips <\/b>were seen along the Panhandler Trail off Munn Road.<\/p>\n

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Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa <\/i>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 On May 11, an eyed hawk moth <\/b>emerged from its pupa.\u00a0 I had reared it from a caterpillar found at Rithet\u2019s Bog last year, and I released the adult moth there.\u00a0 Hawk moths of the genus Smerinthus <\/i>are known as eyed hawk moths.\u00a0 Since S. cerisyi <\/i>(Cerisy\u2019s Eyed Hawk Moth) was split a few years ago into two species, the only English name that I have seen for our species, S. ophthalmica<\/i>,\u00a0is Southwestern Eyed Sphinx.\u00a0 However, it doesn\u2019t belong to the genus Sphinx<\/i>, so it would be better to call it Southwestern Eyed Hawk Moth.\u00a0 For the time being I shall stick to the scientific name.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 While I was photographing the moth, a mayfly<\/b> landed on the wall next to me, so I
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Smerinthus ophthalmica\u00a0 <\/i>(Lep.: Sphingidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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Mayfly\u00a0 Callibaetis ferrugineus\u00a0 <\/i>(Eph.: Baetidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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2023 May 12   \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Apologies for recent problems with Invert Alert \u2013 my computer has been completely down for a few days.\u00a0 Although the computer isn\u2019t yet quite back to normal, I think I have enough to run Invert Alert again and to receive reports and photographs.   Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0\u00a0 […]<\/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-18179","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\/18179","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=18179"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18196,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18179\/revisions\/18196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}