{"id":18870,"date":"2023-06-15T21:15:14","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T04:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=18870"},"modified":"2023-06-16T13:45:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T20:45:48","slug":"2023-june-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=18870","title":{"rendered":"2023 June 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2023 June 15<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>June Butterfly Count<br \/>\nMessage from Gordon Hart<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hello, Butterfly Watchers,<br \/>\nThe June count period starts Saturday June 17 until Sunday June 25. This is an informal census of butterfly numbers and species in Greater Victoria. The area is defined by the Christmas Bird Count circle, extending from Victoria to Brentwood Bay and Island View Road in Central Saanich, and west to Happy Valley and Triangle Mountain, and the Langford Lake and Goldstream areas.<br \/>\nYou can submit a count any time over the count period, just use a separate form for each count and location. In the case of repeat or duplicate counts, I will use the higher numbers. To submit counts, please use the form from the VNHS website at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=33\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p%3D33&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1686974114875000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1VDDk-77DVOrORQXAQ1V1x\">https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=33<\/a><br \/>\nIf you have difficulty with the form, just send me an email with the information.<br \/>\nThank-you for submitting your sightings and good luck with your count.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon<\/p>\n<p>Gordon Hart,<br \/>\nButterfly Count Coordinator,<br \/>\nVictoria Natural History Society<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Today I spotted a large, full-grown <strong>Mourning Cloak<\/strong> caterpillar crossing Carey Road in Victoria.\u00a0 It was obviously looking for somewhere safe to pupate after having left its willow foodplant.\u00a0 I was in a hurry on another errand, and I had no container of any kind, so I picked it up and put it in a suitable safe place and l left it there.\u00a0 I still have a few of the still tiny (second instar) Mourning Cloak caterpillars from the large bunch at Cattle Point (see June 7 evening).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cheryl Hoyle sends photographs of a <strong>pug moth\u00a0<\/strong> and a caterpillar of a <strong>Vapourer Moth<\/strong>, also known as <strong>Rusty Tussock.\u00a0 <\/strong>Some pugs are difficult to identify, and we can&#8217;t be 100 percent certain, but this one may be <em>Eupithecia unicolor<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18871 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/DSC_0667-2-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/DSC_0667-2-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/DSC_0667-2-1024x773.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/DSC_0667-2-768x580.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/DSC_0667-2.jpg 1169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/strong>Probably <em>\u00a0 Eupithecia unicolor<\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-18872 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/DSC_0678-2-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/DSC_0678-2-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/DSC_0678-2-1024x676.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/DSC_0678-2-768x507.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/DSC_0678-2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><em>Orgyia antiqua <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Lymantriinae) Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 June 15 June Butterfly Count Message from Gordon Hart Hello, Butterfly Watchers, The June count period starts Saturday June 17 until Sunday June 25. This is an informal census of butterfly numbers and species in Greater Victoria. The area is defined by the Christmas Bird Count circle, extending from Victoria to Brentwood Bay and [&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-18870","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\/18870","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=18870"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18876,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18870\/revisions\/18876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}