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2024 April 15 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ian Cooper writes:\u00a0 Here are a few more pictures from my April 12 excursion\/photoshoot at *Colquitz River Park and the #GG Trail in View Royal:<\/p>\n

I’m curious to see what, if anything, will emerge from this suspected spider egg sac, first spotted on a broken bit of blow-down branch by the 9 km marker on\u00a0the GG trail in View Royal on March 29. To improve the egg sac’s chance of survival, I relocated the broken branch to a spot a little way up the embankment, where I stuck it into the leaflitter.<\/p>\n

\"\"#Unknown spider egg sac\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

Below is the egg sac normally seen guarded by its mother, a Pimoa altioculata<\/em>, whose pictures have appeared on this site previously. She fled from view as I tried to get a close up shot of her and her egg sac on the Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal.<\/p>\n

\"\"#Egg sac of Pimoa altioculata <\/em>(Ara.: Pimoidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"*Common Chrysalis Snail – Lauria cylindracea<\/em>\u00a0– (Pul.: Lauriidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"*Harvestman (Opiliones)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"*Unidentified theridiid (cobweb weaver) (Ara.: Theridiidae) Ian Cooper
\n(Could this be another Rugathodes sexpunctatus<\/em>?)<\/p>\n

\"\"# <\/em>Linyphiine\u00a0spider (Ara.: \u00a0Linyphiidae \u2013 Linyphiinae) \u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Ken Vaughan sends this photograph of a comma from Mount Tolmie, April 14.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It is often quite difficult to identify commas from the upperside alone, so what do you think this one is?\u00a0 Ken suggests oreas<\/em>, and Gordon Hart points out the great similarity between Ken\u2019s butterfly and the photograph of oreas<\/em> in Yip and Miskelly\u2019s book.\u00a0 We therefore ask observers to keep a good look out for, and even make a special search for, any comma on Mount Tolmie, and try to get a glimpse of the underside.<\/p>\n

\"\"Comma.\u00a0 Is this Polygonia oreas<\/em>?\u00a0 (Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Ken Vaughan<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 And, while on the subject of keeping a special lookout for particular butterflies, we need some sightings of Moss\u2019s Elfin!<\/p>\n

Aziza Cooper writes:\u00a0 On April 12 at Beacon Hill Park, I saw one Western Spring Azure<\/strong> and one Cabbage<\/strong> White<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 At Mount Tolmie reservoir on April 13 there were two California Tortoiseshells<\/strong> and one Mourning Cloak<\/strong>. A wasp was next to the reservoir. \u00a0At Beacon Hill Park on April 14 there was one Cabbage White<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 The tortoiseshell below seems to be the same one that was photographed by Marie O’Shaughnessy a couple of days ago!<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/em>California Tortoiseshell\u00a0 Nymphalis californica <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Vespula germanica<\/em>\/pensylvanica\u00a0 <\/em>(Hym.: Vespidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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2024 April 15 morning Ian Cooper writes:\u00a0 Here are a few more pictures from my April 12 excursion\/photoshoot at *Colquitz River Park and the #GG Trail in View Royal: I’m curious to see what, if anything, will emerge from this suspected spider egg sac, first spotted on a broken bit of blow-down branch by the […]<\/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-21264","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\/21264","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=21264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21266,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21264\/revisions\/21266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}