{"id":18738,"date":"2023-06-06T08:49:04","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T15:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=18738"},"modified":"2023-06-08T13:31:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T20:31:53","slug":"2023-june-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=18738","title":{"rendered":"2023 June 6 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2023 June 6 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Some good news from Ron Flower:\u00a0 On June 5 we stopped into the small native graveyard on West Saanich\u00a0Road and happily found at least three <strong>Field Crescents<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-18732 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_9204-3-Large-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"423\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_9204-3-Large-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_9204-3-Large-768x482.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_9204-3-Large.jpg 976w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/>Female Field Crescent <em>Phyciodes pratensis <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)<br \/>\nRon Flower<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-18733 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_9207-2-Large-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"439\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_9207-2-Large-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_9207-2-Large-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_9207-2-Large-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_9207-2-Large.jpg 1095w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px\" \/>Male Field Crescent <em>Phyciodes pratensis <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)<br \/>\nRon Flower<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Not so good news is that we seem to have lost the Colwood turn-off colony of Silvery Blues.\u00a0 There are few Lupins there now, and, in several visits this year and last, there have been no sightings of adults or ova.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Perhaps someone might check the Koksilah Road colony soon.<\/p>\n<p>We are approaching the end of the <strong>Western Spring Azure<\/strong> season.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I saw one yesterday at Swan Lake.\u00a0 Let us know if any further ones are seen.<\/p>\n<p>More nice pics later today\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 June 6 morning \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Some good news from Ron Flower:\u00a0 On June 5 we stopped into the small native graveyard on West Saanich\u00a0Road and happily found at least three Field Crescents. &nbsp; Female Field Crescent Phyciodes pratensis (Lep.: Nymphalidae) Ron Flower &nbsp; Male Field Crescent Phyciodes pratensis (Lep.: Nymphalidae) Ron Flower &nbsp; Not so [&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-18738","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\/18738","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=18738"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18780,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18738\/revisions\/18780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}