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Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 The tops of Mount Douglas and Mount Tolmie were very active with butterflies at around 5:00 pm this afternoon.\u00a0 At Mount Douglas there were Pale Tiger Swallowtails, Anise Swallowtails, Painted Ladies <\/strong>and one (or more) West Coast Lady.<\/strong> Strangely, no Western Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong> or Lorquin\u2019s Admirals <\/strong>at the top, though there were plenty of those in Bow Park. At Mount Tolmie, there were Western Tiger Swallowtails, Lorquin\u2019s Admirals, Painted Ladies, <\/strong>a Red Admiral <\/strong>and at least two West Coast Ladies.\u00a0 <\/strong>BTW, if you visit Bow Park, take a close look at any Cabbage White<\/strong> that you might see \u2013 just in case it isn\u2019t one.\u00a0 I have twice seen white butterflies that I wasn\u2019t quite sure of.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Today I visited the aspen at Cattle Point where Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy photographed (see June 16) a number of young Mourning Cloak <\/strong>caterpillars.\u00a0 I found them still all together on the same aspen leaf, apparently without having eaten or grown.\u00a0 I concluded that this was because at Cattle Point it is nearly always windy and the aspen leaf was all the time trembling like a Trembling Aspen leaf leaving no time for the caterpillars to do anything other than hold on for dear life.\u00a0\u00a0 I have therefore transferred the caterpillars to an aspen in Bow Park, where it is much less windy.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Invertebrate Alert currently has a large backlog of photographs, some of which are awaiting identification, so there may be some delay in posting them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Hello, Butterfly Watchers, This is a reminder for the VNHS Butterfly Walk on Sunday, July 2. We will meet at the Mount Tolmie summit by the reservoir, at 1.00 p.m. You can park in the parking lot there, or in the large lot north of the summit. After a look around the summit, and depending […]<\/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-19142","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\/19142","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=19142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19143,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19142\/revisions\/19143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}