{"id":18814,"date":"2023-06-11T23:17:23","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T06:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=18814"},"modified":"2023-06-11T23:17:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T06:17:23","slug":"2023-june-11-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=18814","title":{"rendered":"2023 June 11 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2023 June 11 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I visited the site of the Silvery Blue colony at Koksilah Road today.\u00a0 No butterflies \u2013 adults or ova.\u00a0 \u00a0However, I think we may be too late in the season to see them, and the colony probably still survives.\u00a0 The lupin flowers are almost finished \u2013 going to seed.\u00a0\u00a0 There are no lupins on the grass verge outside the fence \u2013 but there are plenty inside the fence in the field.\u00a0 Be warned if you go there that the ground along the verge outside the fence is exceedingly irregular, and it would be very easy to break an ankle there.<\/p>\n<p>I also visited the railway line north of Cowichan Station.\u00a0 Very few butterflies there.\u00a0 No Margined Whites \u2013 perhaps we are in between the flight seasons of the two broods.\u00a0 Just two or three each of <strong>Western Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong> and <strong>Lorquin\u2019s Admiral<\/strong>, one <strong>Western Spring Azure <\/strong>(I tried hard to identify it as some other species, but it persistently came up as Western Spring Azure) and one <strong>Cedar Hairstreak<\/strong>.\u00a0 And, while they have no business on this invertebrate site, I saw two huge, fist-sized Western Toads.\u00a0 I have seen them there in other years, too.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Gaskin writes that he saw a <strong>Four-spotted Skimmer <\/strong>today in the area between the parking lot and Tuesday Pond at Swan Lake \u2013 a lifer for him!\u00a0\u00a0 He may see more later on, for they are not uncommon, and the shape of the abdomen is distinctive.\u00a0\u00a0 There are currently lots of culicids in that area.\u00a0 I wonder if Jeff found any there &#8211; or, to be more accurate, if any found him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 June 11 evening \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I visited the site of the Silvery Blue colony at Koksilah Road today.\u00a0 No butterflies \u2013 adults or ova.\u00a0 \u00a0However, I think we may be too late in the season to see them, and the colony probably still survives.\u00a0 The lupin flowers are almost finished \u2013 going [&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-18814","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\/18814","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=18814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18815,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18814\/revisions\/18815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}