{"id":18760,"date":"2023-06-07T07:27:31","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T14:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=18760"},"modified":"2023-06-07T07:27:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T14:27:53","slug":"2023-june-7-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=18760","title":{"rendered":"2023 June 7 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2023 June 7 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Swallowtail butterflies and Lorquin\u2019s Admirals are in full swing just now.\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr counted seven swallowtails simultaneously on June 6 at the intersection of Metchosin and Lagoon Roads. He shows photographs of two individual <strong>Pale Tiger Swallowtails.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-18757 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1730248-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1730248-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1730248-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1730248-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1730248.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/strong>Pale Tiger Swallowtail <em>Papilio eurymedon\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Papilionidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-18756 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1730155-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1730155-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1730155-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1730155-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1730155.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/strong>Pale Tiger Swallowtail <em>Papilio eurymedon\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Papilionidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum reports that on the evening of July 6 there were still a <strong>Red Admiral <\/strong>and a <strong>Pacific Coast Lady<\/strong> on the Mount Tolmie reservoir, still flying strongly, although beginning to look a little beyond their Best Before date.<\/p>\n<p>Judy Smith found a cluster of <strong>Ladybird Beetle<\/strong> eggs of a leaf of one of her tomato plants in Victoria.\u00a0 I think, writes Jeremy Tatum, that these are probably the introduced Asiatic <em>Harmonia axyridis, <\/em>because I believe the eggs of most of our native ladybirds are rather more elongated than these are.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-18755 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_4535-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"422\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_4535-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_4535-1024x669.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_4535-768x502.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_4535.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/>Ladybird eggs, probably <em>Harmonia axyridis <\/em>(Col.: Coccinellidae)<br \/>\nJeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Aziza Cooper sends photographs of a <strong>Lorquin\u2019s Admiral<\/strong> and a <strong>Blue Dasher<\/strong> from Swan Lake, June 4.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-18758 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/F-Bfly-Lorq-Adm-Swan-Lk-1b-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/F-Bfly-Lorq-Adm-Swan-Lk-1b-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/F-Bfly-Lorq-Adm-Swan-Lk-1b.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/>Lorquin\u2019s Admiral <em>Limenitis lorquini\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.:\u00a0 Nymphalidae)<br \/>\nAziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-18759 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/F-Dragonfly-Swan-Lk-1b-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"428\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/F-Dragonfly-Swan-Lk-1b-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/F-Dragonfly-Swan-Lk-1b.jpg 617w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/>Blue Dasher <em>Pachydiplax longipennis\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)<br \/>\nAziza Cooper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 June 7 morning \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Swallowtail butterflies and Lorquin\u2019s Admirals are in full swing just now.\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr counted seven swallowtails simultaneously on June 6 at the intersection of Metchosin and Lagoon Roads. He shows photographs of two individual Pale Tiger Swallowtails. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Pale Tiger Swallowtail Papilio eurymedon\u00a0 (Lep.: Papilionidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr \u00a0\u00a0Pale Tiger Swallowtail Papilio [&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-18760","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\/18760","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=18760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18761,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18760\/revisions\/18761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}