{"id":21892,"date":"2024-06-10T16:49:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T23:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21892"},"modified":"2024-06-10T16:49:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T23:49:12","slug":"2024-june-10-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21892","title":{"rendered":"2024 June 10 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"

2024 June 10 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Gordon Hart writes from his Highlands home:\u00a0 There were Cedar Hairstreaks<\/strong> on Stonecrop (Sedum spathulifolium<\/em>) , and today on the white flat flower umbels of a Viburnum mariesii<\/em> , there were two Cedar Hairstreaks<\/strong> and two Western Spring Azures<\/strong>, along with a small bee.<\/p>\n

Jeremy Tatum asks:\u00a0 Is there someone out there who can identify the bee?<\/p>\n

\"\"Unknown bee (Hym.:\u00a0 Apidae?)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

\"\"Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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Cedar Hairstreak\u00a0 Callophrys gryneus\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.:\u00a0 Lycaenidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Hart \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [Formerly listed as Mitourus rosneri<\/em>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Aziza Cooper writes:\u00a0 Yesterday, June 9, at Swan Lake there was a green dragonfly near the Nature House. A Western Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong> was there too.<\/p>\n

At Boas Road near Spectacle Lake, there were two Western Spring Azures<\/strong>, two blue <\/strong>species, one Pale Tiger<\/strong> Swallowtail<\/strong> and one Cedar Hairstreak<\/strong>. The clearcut is very overgrown now, compared with my last visit\u00a0 in 2017.<\/p>\n

At Goldstream Heights, from the end of Olympic Road to the powerline, there were five Cedar Hairstreaks, 20+ Adela<\/em>, and three Blue sp.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the railroad tracks near Goldstream campground, there were six Cedar Hairstreaks<\/strong>, one comma, two blue sp., and one Western Spring Azure<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"Cedar Hairstreak\u00a0 Callophrys gryneus\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.:\u00a0 Lycaenidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/strong>Cedar Hairstreak\u00a0 Callophrys gryneus\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.:\u00a0 Lycaenidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/strong>Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/strong>Female Western Pondhawk Erythemis collocata\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)
\nAziza Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Adela septentrionella\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.:\u00a0 Adelidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"
\nWorker Bombus vancouverensis\u00a0 <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper
\nKindly identified for us by Steven Roias<\/p>\n

\"\"Golden Paper Wasp Polistes aurifer\u00a0 <\/em>(Hym.: Vespidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0\u00a0 Today, June 10, Kirsten Mills and I\u00a0saw one Cedar Hairstreak<\/strong>, and two Pale Tiger<\/strong> Swallowtails<\/strong> across the road from the Francis\/King Park nature house.\u00a0 Kirsten also saw a Lorquin’s<\/strong> Admiral<\/strong> nearby.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 An Eight-spotted Skimmer<\/strong> and still a few Western Spring Azures<\/strong> were along the Prospect Lake Road powerline.\u00a0 California Darners<\/strong> were also present.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy photographed this Sheep Moth <\/strong>caterpillar in Uplands Park.\u00a0 Viewers are reminded that this caterpillar can cause an urticating rash if handled.<\/p>\n

\"\"Sheep Moth Hemileuca eglanterina\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep: Saturniidae)
\nMarie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2024 June 10 evening \u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Hart writes from his Highlands home:\u00a0 There were Cedar Hairstreaks on Stonecrop (Sedum spathulifolium) , and today on the white flat flower umbels of a Viburnum mariesii , there were two Cedar Hairstreaks and two Western Spring Azures, along with a small bee. Jeremy Tatum asks:\u00a0 Is there someone […]<\/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-21892","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\/21892","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=21892"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21896,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21892\/revisions\/21896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}