{"id":18549,"date":"2023-05-27T20:32:41","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T03:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=18549"},"modified":"2023-05-31T16:15:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T23:15:10","slug":"2023-may-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=18549","title":{"rendered":"2023 May 27 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2023 May 27 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Val George tallied<strong> Cabbage White 37; Western Tiger Swallowtail 6; Pale Tiger Swallowtail 2; Western Spring Azure 6; Painted Lady 6; Red Admiral 1\u00a0 <\/strong>on Mount Douglas on May 25.\u00a0 He photographed a <strong><em>Nadata gibbosa<\/em><\/strong> on the wall of his Oak Bay house on May 26.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-18548 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Nadata-gibbosa-1-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"471\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Nadata-gibbosa-1-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Nadata-gibbosa-1-1024x779.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Nadata-gibbosa-1-768x584.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Nadata-gibbosa-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><em>Nadata gibbosa\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Notodontidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kirsten Mills sends a photograph of a pair of <strong>Pacific Forktails <\/strong>from McIntyre Reservoir, May 25, and a <strong>Western Pondhawk <\/strong>from Blenkinsop Lake, May 27.\u00a0 She also reports seven <strong>Mourning Cloaks <\/strong>from the Blenkinsop Lake area.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-18546 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/DSCN4961_1-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/DSCN4961_1-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/DSCN4961_1-1024x802.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/DSCN4961_1-768x602.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/DSCN4961_1.jpg 1186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><br \/>\nPacific Forktails <em>Ischnura cervula <\/em>(Odo.: Coenagrionidae)<br \/>\nKirsten Mills<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18547 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/DSCN4971_1-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/DSCN4971_1-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/DSCN4971_1-1024x736.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/DSCN4971_1-768x552.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/DSCN4971_1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/>Western Pondhawk <em>Erythemis collocata <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)<br \/>\nKirsten Mills<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0 On May 27, at Ocean Boulevard and Lagoon Road, there was a <strong>Milbert&#8217;s Tortoiseshell<\/strong>.\u00a0 On Heatherbell Road I saw a <strong>Mourning Cloak<\/strong> and at my mom&#8217;s home on Wascana Street I saw a second <strong>Mourning Cloak<\/strong>.\u00a0 Adam Ross told me at the Colwood Tim Horton&#8217;s that he saw a third <strong>Mourning Cloak<\/strong> at Witty&#8217;s Lagoon as well as 8 or 9 <strong>Western Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong>. \u00a0\u00a0Jeremy Tatum adds yet another <strong>Mourning Cloak \u2013 <\/strong>one at Maber Flats, May 27.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 May 27 morning \u00a0\u00a0 Val George tallied Cabbage White 37; Western Tiger Swallowtail 6; Pale Tiger Swallowtail 2; Western Spring Azure 6; Painted Lady 6; Red Admiral 1\u00a0 on Mount Douglas on May 25.\u00a0 He photographed a Nadata gibbosa on the wall of his Oak Bay house on May 26. &nbsp; Nadata gibbosa\u00a0 (Lep.: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18549","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\/18549","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18549"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18649,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18549\/revisions\/18649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}