{"id":21635,"date":"2024-05-21T20:53:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T03:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21635"},"modified":"2024-05-21T20:53:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T03:53:00","slug":"2024-may-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21635","title":{"rendered":"2024 May 21"},"content":{"rendered":"

2024 May 21<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 <\/strong>During the May 10 -12 Insect Bioblitz in Upland Park, I found a young caterpillar.\u00a0 It has grown since then, and is now large enough to identify.\u00a0 Here it is \u2013 it is Tetracis jubararia<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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\nTetracis jubararia <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy photographed a Painted Lady <\/strong>near the Jeffrey Pine at the top of Mount Tolmie on May 20.<\/p>\n

\"\"Painted Lady Vanessa cardui\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.:\u00a0 Nymphalidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

\"\"Painted Lady Vanessa cardui\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.:\u00a0 Nymphalidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

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Although there seem to have been few butterflies in the immediate vicinity of Victoria in the last few days, things were better during the May 20 VNHS cycling tour from Sooke Potholes to Leechtown, from which we have received indirect reports of Western Spring Azures, a Western Pine Elfin and various tiger swallowtails, commas and tortoiseshells.\u00a0 We also heard reports of two possible Milbert\u2019s Tortoiseshells from Hornby Island.\u00a0 And Geoffrey Newell photographed a Milbert\u2019s Toroiseshell at Maber Flats.\u00a0 See
\nhttps:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/139530418@N08\/53737240141\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Ian Cooper went out in the middle of the night last night to photograph some invertebrates, and he got caught in heavy rain, which did not stop.\u00a0 This did not deter him, and he carried on to get several photographs, including the ones below.<\/p>\n

\"\"Clubiona <\/em>sp. (Ara.: Clubionidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Probably Rugathodes sexpunctatus<\/em>\u00a0(Ara.: Theridiidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Probably Cybaeus sp<\/em>. (Ara.: Cybaeidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Protolophus sp.<\/em>\u00a0(Opiliones: Protolophidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Weevil\u00a0 (Col.: Curculionidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper
\nIdentification pending \u2013 watch this space!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2024 May 21 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 During the May 10 -12 Insect Bioblitz in Upland Park, I found a young caterpillar.\u00a0 It has grown since then, and is now large enough to identify.\u00a0 Here it is \u2013 it is Tetracis jubararia:   Tetracis jubararia (Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum   Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy photographed a Painted Lady […]<\/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-21635","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\/21635","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=21635"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21638,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21635\/revisions\/21638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}