{"id":18569,"date":"2023-05-28T19:37:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T02:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=18569"},"modified":"2023-05-28T19:37:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T02:37:09","slug":"2023-may-28-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=18569","title":{"rendered":"2023 May 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2023 May 28<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeff Gaskin writes: A great day for <strong>Lorquin&#8217;s Admirals.<\/strong>\u00a0 I saw a total of four today in the Colquitz River\/Swan Creek\/Hyacinth Park areas.\u00a0 Plus,\u00a0 I got an email from Dorothy Chambers saying\u00a0 that she saw her first <strong>Lorquin&#8217;s Admirals<\/strong> in Cuthbert Holmes Park today.\u00a0 I also saw three <strong>Mourning Cloaks<\/strong> in different places at Panama Flats this morning.\u00a0 All sightings were today, May 28.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum writes that he had a <strong>Mourning Cloak<\/strong> settle on his sleeve for several seconds, and, very briefly, on his head, at Rithet\u2019s Bog today.\u00a0 We have heard of so many instances of Mourning Cloaks alighting on people that I think we can say that it a fairly regular and distinctive habit of the species.\u00a0 Jeremy also found a hawk moth egg on willow at Rithet\u2019s Bog:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_4522-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_4522-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_4522-1024x649.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_4522-768x486.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_4522.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Smerinthus ophthalmica\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Sphingidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>Jochen M\u00f6hr writes today from Metchosin: I think today I spotted more Swallowtails than Cabbage Whites. At one time I saw three almost simultaneously on the property, where we live, but was only able to record one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18562\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/P1730042-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/P1730042-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/P1730042-1024x626.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/P1730042-768x470.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/P1730042.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><br \/>\nWestern Tiger Swallowtail <em>Papilio rutulus\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Papilionidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18561\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/P1730040-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"513\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/P1730040-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/P1730040-1024x695.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/P1730040-768x521.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/P1730040.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 513px) 100vw, 513px\" \/><br \/>\nWestern Tiger Swallowtail <em>Papilio rutulus\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Papilionidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 May 28 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jeff Gaskin writes: A great day for Lorquin&#8217;s Admirals.\u00a0 I saw a total of four today in the Colquitz River\/Swan Creek\/Hyacinth Park areas.\u00a0 Plus,\u00a0 I got an email from Dorothy Chambers saying\u00a0 that she saw her first Lorquin&#8217;s Admirals in Cuthbert Holmes Park today.\u00a0 I also saw three Mourning Cloaks in [&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-18569","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\/18569","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=18569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18571,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18569\/revisions\/18571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}