{"id":21329,"date":"2024-04-21T07:03:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T14:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21329"},"modified":"2024-04-21T07:03:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T14:03:48","slug":"2024-april-20-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21329","title":{"rendered":"2024 April 20 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2024 April 20 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Posted early morning April 21 because of technical problem.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Ken Vaughan sends a photograph of a <strong>Pacific Forktail <\/strong>from the Beaver Lake Retriever Ponds this morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21320 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMGP3184a-Custom-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMGP3184a-Custom-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMGP3184a-Custom-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMGP3184a-Custom.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><em>Ischnura cervula\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.:\u00a0 Coenagrionidae)\u00a0 Ken Vaughan<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gordon Hart writes:\u00a0 Today, Saturday April 20, Anne-Marie and I went on a VNHS field trip up Jocelyn Hill in the Highlands. It was cool at the start, but later we started to see <strong>Western Spring Azures<\/strong>, and then one <strong>Brown Elfin<\/strong> on an arbutus leaf, one of its larval food plants. I have attached a photo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21319 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Elfin-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"591\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Elfin-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Elfin-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Elfin-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Elfin.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\" \/>Brown Elfin\u00a0 <em>Callophrys augustinus\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 In recent years on this site, this butterfly has been referred to as the Western Brown Elfin or Western Elfin <em>Incisalia iroides<\/em>.\u00a0 In the 2023 <em>ATC<\/em>, which we are now trying to follow on this site, it has been reunited with the Brown Elfin with its former scientific name <em>Callophrys augustinus<\/em>.\u00a0 <em>Incisalia<\/em> is now treated as a subgenus within <em>Callophrys<\/em>, and <em>iroides<\/em> is treated as a subspecies within <em>augustinus<\/em>. Thus the scientific name including subgenus and subspecies would be <em>Callophrys (Incisalia) augustinus iroides. <\/em><br \/>\nOn this site we don\u2019t usually (unless there is some special reason) refer to subgenera and subspecies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 April 20 evening [Posted early morning April 21 because of technical problem.] \u00a0\u00a0 Ken Vaughan sends a photograph of a Pacific Forktail from the Beaver Lake Retriever Ponds this morning. Ischnura cervula\u00a0 (Odo.:\u00a0 Coenagrionidae)\u00a0 Ken Vaughan &nbsp; Gordon Hart writes:\u00a0 Today, Saturday April 20, Anne-Marie and I went on a VNHS field trip up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21329","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=21329"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21331,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21329\/revisions\/21331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}