{"id":21796,"date":"2024-06-03T20:51:37","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T03:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21796"},"modified":"2024-06-03T20:51:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T03:51:37","slug":"2024-june-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21796","title":{"rendered":"2024 June 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

2024 June 3<\/strong><\/p>\n

There seem to be so few butterflies around jyust now, that it is worth reporting sightings of a single butterfly.\u00a0 Thus, Aziza reports a Pale Tiger Swallowtail <\/strong>at Devonian Park today.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Moths, too are scarce to come by, but there are a few nevertheless.\u00a0 Thus, Aziza photographed a Cinnabar Moth<\/strong> at Pedder Bay:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/em>Cinnabar Moth Tyria jacobaeae\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Arctiinae)\u00a0\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum shows a Virginia Tiger = Virginia Ermine <\/strong>reared from a Yellow Woolly Bear caterpillar last year.\u00a0 The adult moth emerged yesterday, and was released on Christmas Hill:<\/p>\n

\"\"Spilosoma virginica\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Arctiinae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

In case you are wondering if \u201cErebidae \u2013 Arctiinae\u201d for each is a misprint \u2013 no, they are both arctiines.<\/p>\n

Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I hope someone will go up to the the railway line north of Cowichan station to check for Margined Whites there \u2013 we don\u2019t want to miss them this year.\u00a0 While there, carefully check any blues you might see along the railway track.\u00a0 They may not all be Western Spring Azures.<\/p>\n

Also, someone please check the lupine patch at the corner of the TCH and Koksilah Road for Silvery Blues.\u00a0 If there are no butterflies there, check the young, unopened lupine flowerheads for ova.\u00a0\u00a0 Be careful of the irregular ground there \u2013 you could easily break or sprain an ankle, so walk carefully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2024 June 3 There seem to be so few butterflies around jyust now, that it is worth reporting sightings of a single butterfly.\u00a0 Thus, Aziza reports a Pale Tiger Swallowtail at Devonian Park today.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Moths, too are scarce to come by, but there are a few nevertheless.\u00a0 Thus, Aziza photographed a Cinnabar Moth at Pedder […]<\/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-21796","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\/21796","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=21796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21798,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21796\/revisions\/21798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}