{"id":2024,"date":"2016-04-01T09:59:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T16:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2024"},"modified":"2016-04-25T14:41:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T21:41:12","slug":"april-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2024","title":{"rendered":"April 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2016 April 1<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Hart writes:\u00a0\u00a0 We saw a few more species today. At Francis\/King Park I saw 2<\/b> Sara Orangetips, 2 Spring Azures<\/b>, and an elfin sp<\/b>.\u00a0 At home (Highlands District), we saw a Mourning Cloak, Sara Orangetip\u00a0 and a Moss\u2019s Elfin<\/b> on some Sedum<\/i>, photograph attached. Also a beautiful Golden Buprestid Beetle (Buprestis aurulenta<\/i>)<\/b>\u00a0allowed me to take some pictures.<\/p>\n

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Moss\u2019s Elfin Incisalia mossii <\/i>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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Golden Buprestid Beetle Buprestis aurulenta <\/i>(Col.: Buprestidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Gatten writes:\u00a0 I have lots of action right now with all this warm weather. \u00a0I was surprised to see Feralia comstocki<\/i><\/b>, which normally isn’t around for another couple of weeks. \u00a0I had two Feralia deceptiva<\/i><\/b> as well, so with a bit of patience I managed to get a comparison shot of the two side-by-side.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The other nice moth I had last night was Egira perlubens<\/i><\/b>. \u00a0I see maybe one or two per spring at my place, so I always enjoy spying one under my lights.<\/p>\n

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Feralia comstocki <\/i>(left) and F. deceptiva <\/i>(right)\u00a0 (Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Gatten<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Here is a Behrensia conchiformis<\/i> <\/b>from my Saanich apartment today.\u00a0 The caterpillar feeds on Snowberry.<\/p>\n

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Behrensia conchiformis <\/i>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/i>Gerry and Wendy Ansell write:\u00a0 We found our first Red Admiral<\/b> of the year on Mount Tolmie this afternoon (April 1) between 2:00 and 3:30.\u00a0 It was harassing a Mourning Cloak <\/b>most of that time.\u00a0 There was also 1 California Tortoiseshell<\/b>, at least 1 Western Spring<\/b> Azure <\/b>and a Cabbage White<\/b>.\u00a0 I had my camera with me today so there is a photo attached.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum adds:\u00a0 I visited Mount Tolmie at about 6:30 p.m. and I saw the Red Admiral<\/b> and 3 California Tortoiseshells <\/b>on the reservoir.<\/p>\n

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Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta <\/i>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Wendy Ansell<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna writes:\u00a0 I was attempting photographing developing frog embryos in a Kemp Lake Road garden pond when this insect larva drifted into the picture. I believe it is a mosquito<\/b>. A Western Spring Azure<\/b> butterfly is flying but not stopping for a photo.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum responds:\u00a0 Yes, it is a mosquito, and there is almost certainly some viewer out there who can tell us (with reasons, please) what genus it is.\u00a0 Please let us know:\u00a0 jtatumATuvic.ca\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy adds:\u00a0 We would very much welcome more pictures of terrestrial aquatic invertebrates.\u00a0 We have had a few on this site, but very, very few, and there is a whole world of aquatic invertebrates out there to challenge photographers.<\/p>\n

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Mosquito larva (Dip.: Culicidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2016 April 1 \u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Hart writes:\u00a0\u00a0 We saw a few more species today. At Francis\/King Park I saw 2 Sara Orangetips, 2 Spring Azures, and an elfin sp.\u00a0 At home (Highlands District), we saw a Mourning Cloak, Sara Orangetip\u00a0 and a Moss\u2019s Elfin on some Sedum, photograph attached. Also a beautiful Golden Buprestid Beetle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2024","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\/2024","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=2024"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2248,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions\/2248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}