{"id":2126,"date":"2016-04-18T18:21:22","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T02:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2126"},"modified":"2016-04-18T19:26:31","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T02:26:31","slug":"april-18-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2126","title":{"rendered":"April 18"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   <\/strong>Jeremy Gatten found the clown beetle<\/strong> shown below around the vernal pools in Uplands Park on April 17.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Hister militaris<\/em>  <\/em>(Col.:  Histeridae)   Jeremy Gatten<\/p>\n

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 Hister militaris<\/em>  <\/em>(Col.:  Histeridae)   Jeremy Gatten<\/p>\n

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 Hister militaris<\/em>  <\/em>(Col.:  Histeridae)   Jeremy Gatten<\/p>\n

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   Gordon Hart sends photographs of a female California Darner<\/strong> and a Spear Moth, <\/strong>also known as Argent and Sable.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"California Darner Rhionaeschna californica <\/em>(Odo.: Aeshnidae)  Gordon Hart<\/div>\n

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\"\"Spear Moth, or Argent and Sable Rheumaptera hastata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) <\/div>\n

 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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    <\/strong>Rebecca Reader-Lee sends photographs of some moths from her North Highlands home, April 17.<\/p>\n

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 Coryphista meadii <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Rebecca Reader-Lee<\/p>\n

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\"\"Behrensia conchiformis <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)  Rebecca Reader-Lee<\/div>\n

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\"\"Perizoma curvilinea <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Rebecca Reader-Lee<\/div>\n

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\"\"Feralia comstocki <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)  Rebecca Reader-Lee<\/div>\n

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   Aziza Cooper writes: Yesterday, April 17, on Knockan Hill there were one Western Brown Elfin, <\/strong>two Spring Azures<\/strong> and one Cabbage White.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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   In Beacon Hill Park on April 17 were one Mourning Cloak<\/strong> and one Cabbage White<\/strong>. At about 7pm on April 17, one Red Admiral<\/strong> was shivering in the wind on the reservoir at Mt Tolmie.<\/p>\n

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Today, April 18, at the railroad tracks just south of the bridge over Goldstream west of the Goldstream campground, there were about 30 Spring Azures<\/strong>, one Cedar Hairstreak<\/strong> and one Western Pine Elfin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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I observed up to 17 Spring Azures grouped together puddling in the mud between the tracks. The formerly flooded area is now only muddy.<\/p>\n

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  Wendy and Gerry Ansell write that they just had their first Western Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong> in their yard on Cordova Ridge – April 18th<\/sup> at 12:30 pm.<\/p>\n

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  Jeremy Tatum writes:  No butterflies on the Mount Tolmie reservoir on Monday (April 18) afternoon, but at about 6:30 p.m. there were two Red Admirals, <\/strong>one California Tortoiseshell <\/strong> and a Green <\/strong>(I think!) Comma <\/strong>either on the reservoir or near the top of the steps.  The comma, in particular, seemed to enjoy resting on the Escallonia<\/em> near the top of the steps.  If anyone sees it there, I’d be interested if you agree (or otherwise!) with the identification.<\/p>\n

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 Western Spring Azures Celastrina echo <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)   Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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\"\"Cedar Hairstreak Mitoura rosneri <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Aziza Cooper<\/div>\n

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\"\"Western Pine Elfin Incisalia eryphon <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Aziza Cooper<\/div>\n

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2016 April 18      Jeremy Gatten found the clown beetle shown below around the vernal pools in Uplands Park on April 17.   Hister militaris  (Col.:  Histeridae)   Jeremy Gatten  Hister militaris  (Col.:  Histeridae)   Jeremy Gatten    Hister militaris  (Col.:  Histeridae)   Jeremy Gatten        Gordon Hart sends photographs of a female California Darner […]<\/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-2126","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\/2126","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=2126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}