{"id":21836,"date":"2024-06-07T20:28:58","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T03:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21836"},"modified":"2024-06-07T20:28:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T03:28:58","slug":"2024-june-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21836","title":{"rendered":"2024 June 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2024 June 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0 Today, June 7,\u00a0 I found my first of the year <strong>Cardinal Meadowhawks<\/strong> in Cuthbert Holmes Park,\u00a0 by the ponds near Admirals Road.\u00a0 There were two, and also there were several <strong>California Darners<\/strong>.\u00a0 Strange to say I still haven&#8217;t seen a Swallowtail or Lorquin&#8217;s Admiral in Victoria\u00a0 this year.\u00a0 There have been very few butterflies in the Burnside\/Gorge neighbourhood; only Cabbage Whites are around.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum replies:\u00a0 I think I have seen only one swallowtail (a Western Tiger), but then I haven\u2019t been out very much.\u00a0 It is still a little early for large numbers Lorquin\u2019s Admirals.\u00a0 What are others finding?<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0\u00a0 This moth turned up at my Saanich apartment this morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21835 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_4821-300x245.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"542\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_4821-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_4821-1024x835.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_4821-768x627.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_4821.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" \/><em>Stenoporpia excelsaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 June 7 Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0 Today, June 7,\u00a0 I found my first of the year Cardinal Meadowhawks in Cuthbert Holmes Park,\u00a0 by the ponds near Admirals Road.\u00a0 There were two, and also there were several California Darners.\u00a0 Strange to say I still haven&#8217;t seen a Swallowtail or Lorquin&#8217;s Admiral in Victoria\u00a0 this year.\u00a0 There [&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-21836","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\/21836","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=21836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21838,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21836\/revisions\/21838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}