{"id":18494,"date":"2023-05-25T13:39:26","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T20:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=18494"},"modified":"2023-05-26T12:08:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T19:08:14","slug":"2023-may-25-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=18494","title":{"rendered":"2023 May 25"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2023 May 25<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In case anyone is wondering, we did not issue a May 24 Alert.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ron Flower photographed these two Pale Tiger Swallowtails <\/b>at Goldstream, May 24:<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 He also photographed another Cedar Hairstreak <\/b>at Goldstream on May 24.\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum also reports a Cedar Hairstreak<\/b> from the Panhandle Trail on May 24.<\/p>\n

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Cedar Hairstreak Mitoura rosneri\u00a0 <\/i>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Ron Flower<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Western<\/b> and Pale Tiger Swallowtails<\/b>, as well as Western Spring Azures <\/b>and Cabbage Whites<\/b>, are now being seen generally. Sightings of Mourning Cloaks <\/b>continue, Jeff Gaskin reporting one on Christmas Hill, and Jeremy Tatum reporting two from the Panhandle Trail.\u00a0 Other goodies from the Panhandle trail today include a Propertius Duskywing <\/b>and three Grey Hairstreaks.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Aziza Cooper reports the following from Sooke Potholes, May 24:<\/p>\n

Pale Tiger Swallowtail<\/b> – 4<\/p>\n

Western Tiger Swallowtail<\/b> – 2<\/p>\n

Western Spring Azure<\/b> – 29<\/p>\n

Cedar Hairstreak<\/b> \u2013 1<\/p>\n

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Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo\u00a0 <\/i>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Pale Tiger Swallowtail\u00a0 Papilio eurymedon\u00a0 <\/i>(Lep.: Papilionidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Cedar Hairstreak\u00a0 Mitoura rosneri\u00a0 <\/i>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper sends a photograph of the California Mint Moth Pyrausta californicalis <\/i><\/b>from along the Galloping Goose Trail in Saanich near Harriet Road today:<\/p>\n

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\nMint Moth Pyrausta californicalis <\/i>(Lep.:\u00a0 Crambidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum sends a photograph of Spilosoma virginica<\/i><\/b> reared from a caterpillar found last year.<\/p>\n

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Spilosoma virginica\u00a0 <\/i>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Arctiinae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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2023 May 25   In case anyone is wondering, we did not issue a May 24 Alert.   \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ron Flower photographed these two Pale Tiger Swallowtails at Goldstream, May 24: Pale Tiger Swallowtails Papilio eurymedon (Lep.: Papilionidae) Ron Flower \u00a0\u00a0 He also photographed another Cedar Hairstreak at Goldstream on May 24.\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum also […]<\/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-18494","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\/18494","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=18494"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18540,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18494\/revisions\/18540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}