{"id":21786,"date":"2024-06-02T17:58:26","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T00:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21786"},"modified":"2024-06-03T07:36:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T14:36:32","slug":"2024-june-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21786","title":{"rendered":"2024 June 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

2024 June 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0 <\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0We hear that Daniel D\u00f6nnecke saw a Mourning Cloak <\/strong>at Maber Flats on May 31 \u2013 <\/strong>and Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy saw two at Swan Lake on the same day.<\/p>\n

Jeff Gaskin writes: Not much to report but a couple of Mourning Cloaks<\/strong> in the past two days.\u00a0 Yesterday, June the 1st at Somenos marsh in Duncan there was a Mourning Cloak<\/strong> along the boardwalk trail.\u00a0 The day before on May 31st there was another Mourning Cloak<\/strong> in the southeast corner of Panama Flats. \u00a0\u00a0I’m still seeing the odd Western Spring Azure<\/strong> and not much else except Cabbage Whites<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Here is another view of the Green Comma<\/strong> that flirted with Marie yesterday in Outerbridge Park, as well as a photo of another Green Comma<\/strong> from Gordon Hart\u2019s Highlands Garden.<\/p>\n

\"\"Green Comma Polygonia faunus <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

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\"\" Green Comma Polygonia faunus <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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And here is a Cardinal Meadowhawk photographed by Gordon in Goy Park, near the Prospect Lake power lines.<\/p>\n

\"\"Cardinal Meadowhawk Sympetrum illotum <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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Marie sends photographs of two dragonflies from Swan Lake, May 31:<\/p>\n

\"\"Cardinal Meadowhawk Sympetrum illotum <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

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\"\"California Darner Rhionaeschna californica <\/em>(Odo.: Aeshnidae)
\nMarie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

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Apart from Tineola bisselliella<\/em>, which is common in my apartment and not entirely welcome, writes Jeremy Tatum, moths seem to be scarce everywhere this year.\u00a0 It was therefore a good surprise to receive photographs of two moths today, one from Jochen M\u00f6hr in Metchosin and one from Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy at Swan Lake.\u00a0\u00a0 We thank Libby Avis for identifying both of them for us.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Lacinipolia patalis <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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\"\"Macaria<\/em> sp.\u00a0 (Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy
\nDifficult to be sure of exact species.<\/p>\n

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Here are two bumble bees photographed by Gordon Hart, kindly identified for us by Steven Roias:<\/p>\n

\"\"Bombus flavifrons <\/em>or sitkensis\u00a0 <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart
\n<\/em>(Need to see last few tergites to be sure which species.)<\/p>\n

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\"\"Bombus vancouverensis\u00a0 <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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2024 June 2 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0We hear that Daniel D\u00f6nnecke saw a Mourning Cloak at Maber Flats on May 31 \u2013 and Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy saw two at Swan Lake on the same day. Jeff Gaskin writes: Not much to report but a couple of Mourning Cloaks in the past two days.\u00a0 Yesterday, June the 1st at […]<\/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-21786","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\/21786","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=21786"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21790,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21786\/revisions\/21790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}