{"id":19492,"date":"2023-07-24T20:06:54","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T03:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19492"},"modified":"2023-07-25T14:39:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T21:39:56","slug":"2023-july-24-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19492","title":{"rendered":"2023 July 24 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2023 July 24 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aziza Cooper writes: July 21, on Mount Washington,\u00a0I saw one <strong>Great Arctic<\/strong>, five <strong>Hydaspe Fritillaries<\/strong>, two <strong>Anise Swallowtails<\/strong>, two <strong>Purplish Coppers<\/strong>, one <strong>Anna&#8217;s Blue<\/strong> and one <strong>Silvery Blue<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19481 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/C-Bfly-Blue-Silvery-or-Boisduval-Mt-WA-1b-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/C-Bfly-Blue-Silvery-or-Boisduval-Mt-WA-1b-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/C-Bfly-Blue-Silvery-or-Boisduval-Mt-WA-1b.jpg 532w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/>Silvery Blue <em>Glaucopsyche lygdamus <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)<br \/>\nAziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19485 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/C-Bfly-Annas-blurry-Mt-WA-1-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"496\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/C-Bfly-Annas-blurry-Mt-WA-1-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/C-Bfly-Annas-blurry-Mt-WA-1-1024x758.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/C-Bfly-Annas-blurry-Mt-WA-1-768x568.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/C-Bfly-Annas-blurry-Mt-WA-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/>Anna\u2019s Blue <em>Lycaeides anna <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19484 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/C-Bfly-Purplish-Copper-V-Mt-WA-1b-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"451\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/C-Bfly-Purplish-Copper-V-Mt-WA-1b-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/C-Bfly-Purplish-Copper-V-Mt-WA-1b.jpg 637w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/>Purplish Copper <em>Lycaena helloides <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)<br \/>\nAziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 The butterfly below (a different individual from the one above) presented a bit of a puzzle.\u00a0 It has little maculation, and a conspicuous a black-and-white chequered fringe.\u00a0 I had originally labelled it as a Purplish Copper.\u00a0 Thanks to Val George for pointing out that the conspicuous black-and-white chequered fringe is in fact characteristic of the <strong>Mariposa Copper<\/strong>, so I have corrected the label accordingly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19483 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/C-Bfly-Purplish-Copper-D-Mt-WA-1b-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/C-Bfly-Purplish-Copper-D-Mt-WA-1b-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/C-Bfly-Purplish-Copper-D-Mt-WA-1b.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/>Mariposa Copper <em>Lycaena mariposa <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)<br \/>\nAziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19480 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/C-Bfly-Frit-Mt-WA-3-2b-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"487\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/C-Bfly-Frit-Mt-WA-3-2b-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/C-Bfly-Frit-Mt-WA-3-2b.jpg 478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/>Hydaspe Fritillary \u00a0<em>Speyeria hydaspe\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)<br \/>\nAziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 The <strong>Great Arctic <\/strong>below further weakens my shaky belief that Great Arctics appear only in even-numbered years.\u00a0\u00a0 Our Invertebrate Alerts shed no light on the question \u2013 as far as I can see, this is the first report on Invertebrate Alert of a Great Arctic in the years 2015 &#8211; 2023.\u00a0 Perhaps we haven\u2019t been looking hard enough.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19482 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/C-Bfly-Great-Arctic-pt-V-Mt-WA-1b-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"455\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/C-Bfly-Great-Arctic-pt-V-Mt-WA-1b-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/C-Bfly-Great-Arctic-pt-V-Mt-WA-1b.jpg 502w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/>Great Arctic\u00a0 <em>Oeneis nevadensis <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae \u2013 Satyrinae) Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr writes from Metchosin:\u00a0 This morning a <strong><em>Caripeta\u00a0 aequaliaria<\/em><\/strong><em>.<\/em>\u00a0 I had seen\u00a0the upper side when I first encountered it, but then, in front of the camera, it would not open its wings again before\u00a0it flew off.\u00a0 Sorry about that!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19488 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Caripeta-aequaliaria-P1740527-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Caripeta-aequaliaria-P1740527-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Caripeta-aequaliaria-P1740527-1024x649.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Caripeta-aequaliaria-P1740527-768x487.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Caripeta-aequaliaria-P1740527.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\" \/><em>Caripeta\u00a0 aequaliaria\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19489 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/P1740531-300x255.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"442\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/P1740531-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/P1740531-1024x870.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/P1740531-768x652.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/P1740531.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\" \/><em>Caripeta\u00a0 aequaliaria\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 July 24 evening Aziza Cooper writes: July 21, on Mount Washington,\u00a0I saw one Great Arctic, five Hydaspe Fritillaries, two Anise Swallowtails, two Purplish Coppers, one Anna&#8217;s Blue and one Silvery Blue. Silvery Blue Glaucopsyche lygdamus (Lep.: Lycaenidae) Aziza Cooper Anna\u2019s Blue Lycaeides anna (Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper &nbsp; Purplish Copper Lycaena helloides (Lep.: Lycaenidae) [&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-19492","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\/19492","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=19492"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19496,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19492\/revisions\/19496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}