{"id":18839,"date":"2023-06-13T07:17:33","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T14:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=18839"},"modified":"2023-06-13T07:24:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T14:24:57","slug":"2023-june-13-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=18839","title":{"rendered":"2023 June 13 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 11pt;\"><b>2023 June 13 morning<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 11pt;\"><b>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Steven Roias asks if this report and photographs of a female <b>Boisduval\u2019s Blue <\/b>from Spectacle Lake (off Malahat) on 11 June 2023 is \u201cworth reporting?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019ll say! Very exciting indeed, and it reminds us all that, at this time of year, we must examine all blues carefully and not casually dismiss them as Azures.\u00a0 Steven continues: \u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; color: black;\">She was not<br \/>\nnectaring the entire time we were observing, but rather flying and resting on a number of plants (Broad-leaved Lupine <i>Lupinus latifolius<\/i>, Trailing Blackberry <i>Rubus ursinus<\/i> and woody debris.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 11pt;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image.png\" alt=\"image.png\" width=\"537\" height=\"366\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; color: black;\">Boisduval\u2019s Blue <i>Icaricia icarioides <\/i>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)<br \/>\nAm\u00e9lie Rousseau<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; color: black;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-1.png\" alt=\"image.png\" width=\"555\" height=\"416\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span id=\"gmail-Picture_x0020_1\" style=\"width: 415.5pt; height: 311.25pt;\">Boisduval\u2019s Blue <i>Icaricia icarioides <\/i>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)<br \/>\nAm\u00e9lie Rousseau<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; color: black;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 June 13 morning \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Steven Roias asks if this report and photographs of a female Boisduval\u2019s Blue from Spectacle Lake (off Malahat) on 11 June 2023 is \u201cworth reporting?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019ll say! Very exciting indeed, and it reminds us all that, at this time of year, we must examine all blues carefully and not casually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18839","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\/18839","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18843,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18839\/revisions\/18843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}