{"id":21280,"date":"2024-04-18T21:12:38","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T04:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21280"},"modified":"2024-04-18T21:12:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T04:12:38","slug":"2024-april-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21280","title":{"rendered":"2024 April 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2024 April 18<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy writes<br \/>\nApril 17:\u00a0 1 <strong>Cabbage White<\/strong>, Martindale Road; 1 <strong>Cabbage White<\/strong>, Outerbridge Park;\u00a0 2 <strong>Sara Orangetips, <\/strong>Mount Douglas<strong>;\u00a0 <\/strong>1 <strong>Western Spring Azure<\/strong>, (picture below) Mount Douglas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21278 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2W1A4449-1-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"571\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2W1A4449-1-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2W1A4449-1-1024x663.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2W1A4449-1-768x497.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2W1A4449-1.jpg 1132w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/>Male Western Spring Azure <em>Celastrina echo <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p>April 18:\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy and Geoffrey Newell saw the following in Uplands Park: 2<strong> Mourning<\/strong> <strong>Cloaks,<\/strong> <strong>2 Cabbage Whites,<\/strong> and <strong>3 Western Spring Azures.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Val George writes: This <strong>White -ribboned Carpet Moth, <em>Mesoleuca gratulata<\/em><\/strong>, was near the Hartland Landfill this afternoon, April 18. There was another of these moths in the same location. About a dozen <strong>Western Spring Azure<\/strong> butterflies were also in the general area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21279 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/White-ribboned-Carpet-Moth-4-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"546\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/White-ribboned-Carpet-Moth-4-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/White-ribboned-Carpet-Moth-4-768x542.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/White-ribboned-Carpet-Moth-4.jpg 1003w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/>White-ribboned Carpet Moth <em>Mesoleuca gratulata<\/em> (Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 The moth <em>Epirrhoe plebeculata <\/em>often flies in the same place and time as <em>Mesoleuca gratulata<\/em>.\u00a0 While the immature stages of <em>gratulata <\/em>are well known (the caterpillar feeds on <em>Rubus<\/em>), I have never found the caterpillar of <em>plebeculata<\/em>.\u00a0 Please watch for this moth, and see if you can catch it ovipositing.\u00a0 See what plant it lays on.\u00a0 I\u2019d be very glad of an ovum in order to rear the caterpillar to adult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 April 18 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy writes April 17:\u00a0 1 Cabbage White, Martindale Road; 1 Cabbage White, Outerbridge Park;\u00a0 2 Sara Orangetips, Mount Douglas;\u00a0 1 Western Spring Azure, (picture below) Mount Douglas. Male Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo (Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy April 18:\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy and Geoffrey Newell saw the following in Uplands Park: 2 [&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-21280","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\/21280","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=21280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21282,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21280\/revisions\/21282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}