{"id":2224,"date":"2016-04-23T18:21:34","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T02:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2224"},"modified":"2016-10-13T10:27:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T17:27:30","slug":"april-23-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2224","title":{"rendered":"April 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>April 23<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>St George\u2019s<\/strong><strong> Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Libby Avis sends two photographs of a male <strong>Ceanothus Silk Moth <\/strong> <strong><em>Hyalophora euryalus<\/em><\/strong> taken in Port Alberni today (April 23).\u00a0 She writes: This was a real treat &#8211; we don\u2019t see it very often! Five years since our last sighting, but I opened the front door this morning and there it was. Just had time to take a few photos. It was slowly opening and closing its wings and was gone five minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Hyalophorus upp.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Hyalophorus-upp.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"397.532\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><em>Hyalophora euryalus <\/em>(Lep.: Saturniidae)\u00a0 Libby Avis<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Hyalophorus und.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Hyalophorus-und.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"596\" name=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Hyalophora euryalus <\/em>(Lep.: Saturniidae)\u00a0 Libby Avis<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0Aziza Cooper writes:\u00a0 At the summit of Mount Douglas, on Thursday, Apr. 21, there were:<\/p>\n<p><strong>2 <\/strong><strong>California<\/strong><strong> Tortoiseshells<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1 Painted Lady<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1 Red Admiral<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1 Western Spring Azure<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1 Sara Orangetip<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here are photos of the <strong>Red Admiral<\/strong> and the two <strong>California Tortoiseshells<\/strong> perching near each other. Getting the two together is quite rare since they mostly seem to be madly dashing around the top of the hill.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today, April 23, Aziza continues, I found an <strong><em>Autographa californica<\/em><\/strong> on the west slope of Mount Douglas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"I Red Admiral d 1a.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/I-Red-Admiral-d-1a.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"390.86210640608033\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Red Admiral <em>Vanessa atalanta <\/em>(Lep.:\u00a0 Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"I Two Tortoiseshells 1a.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/I-Two-Tortoiseshells-1a.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"410.74333333333334\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>California Tortoiseshells <em>Nymphalis californica <\/em>(Lep.:\u00a0 Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"I Moth 1a.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/I-Moth-1a.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"445.51\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image010.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><em>Autographa californica <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 23 St George\u2019s Day &nbsp; Libby Avis sends two photographs of a male Ceanothus Silk Moth Hyalophora euryalus taken in Port Alberni today (April 23).\u00a0 She writes: This was a real treat &#8211; we don\u2019t see it very often! Five years since our last sighting, but I opened the front door this morning and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2224","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\/2224","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3365,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions\/3365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}