{"id":18367,"date":"2023-05-19T07:28:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T14:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=18367"},"modified":"2023-06-01T14:38:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T21:38:07","slug":"2023-may-19-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=18367","title":{"rendered":"2023 May 19 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\"><b>2023 May 19 morning<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\">Yesterday, Ron Flower saw three <b>Propertius Duskywings <\/b>at Goldstream Park \u2013 interesting, because there appear to be no Garry Oaks (the larval foodplant) anywhere near.\u00a0\u00a0 Here is a male, photographed by Ron:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-140.png\" alt=\"image.png\" width=\"480\" height=\"325\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\">Male Propertius Duskywing <i>Erynnis propertius <\/i>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\">\u00a0 Ron Flower<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I visited Mount Tolmie reservoir at 5:50 pm yesterday.\u00a0 It was slightly windy, so not nearly as many butterflies as on the previous day.\u00a0 On the reservoir there were a <b>California Tortoiseshell,<\/b> a <b>West Coast Lady <\/b>and a <b>Pale Tiger Swallowtail, <\/b>and, flying around the Laburnums, as also noted by Gordon Hart, an <b>Anise Swallowtail.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy writes:\u00a0 I spent some time on Mount Tolmie yesterday afternoon. Although sunny it was also breezy, so Swallowtails didn&#8217;t put down.\u00a0 Constantly on the wing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt;\">I saw<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt;\"><b>2 Mourning Cloak<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt;\"><b>2 Pale Tiger Swallowtail<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt;\"><b>2 Cabbage White<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt;\"><b>3 Western Tiger Swallowtail<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt;\"><b>3 Western Spring Azure<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-141.png\" alt=\"image.png\" width=\"498\" height=\"332\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\">Mourning Cloak\u00a0 <i>Nymphalis antiopa <\/i>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\">\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-142.png\" alt=\"image.png\" width=\"494\" height=\"329\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\">Mourning Cloak\u00a0 <i>Nymphalis antiopa <\/i>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\">Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\">Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Here is a caterpillar from the Stinging Nettles along Lochside Trail north of Blenkinsop Lake.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-143.png\" alt=\"image.png\" width=\"494\" height=\"307\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><i>Hypena<\/i> <i>californica<\/i> \u00a0 (Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Hypeninae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 May 19 morning &nbsp; Yesterday, Ron Flower saw three Propertius Duskywings at Goldstream Park \u2013 interesting, because there appear to be no Garry Oaks (the larval foodplant) anywhere near.\u00a0\u00a0 Here is a male, photographed by Ron: Male Propertius Duskywing Erynnis propertius (Lep.: Hesperiidae) \u00a0 Ron Flower \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I visited Mount Tolmie [&hellip;]<\/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-18367","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\/18367","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=18367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18664,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18367\/revisions\/18664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}