{"id":2249,"date":"2016-04-25T18:06:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T02:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2249"},"modified":"2016-04-25T19:10:45","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T02:10:45","slug":"april-25-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2249","title":{"rendered":"April 25"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   <\/strong>Mike Yip writes from Nanoose Bay:  I was rewarded this morning (April 25) with several first-of-year Western Tailed Blues<\/strong> on a quick trip to the Cross Road clearcut. I also saw 6 <\/strong>Western Elfins<\/strong>, 2 Western Pine Elfins, 1 Grey Hairstreak<\/strong>, and several Western Spring Azures.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

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   [Jeremy Tatum notes:  Like many lycaenids (and indeed other organisms), the taxonomy of the Western Tailed Blue changes frequently.  For consistency with other entries on this site I am continuing, for the time being, to label it as Everes amyntula<\/em>, although viewers will often see it under the alternative name Cupido amyntula.<\/em>]<\/p>\n

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  Jeremy also remarks:  Mike’s photographs show us how very small the tails of the Western Tailed Blue can be – something to be aware of when we are looking for this butterfly. The tails may be quite difficult to see.  Also of interest in Mike’s photographs – the butterfly is nectaring on Lathyrus – <\/em>which is also the larval foodplant.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Western Tailed Blue Everes amyntula <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Mike Yip<\/div>\n

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\"\"Western Tailed Blue Everes amyntula <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Mike Yip<\/div>\n

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\"\"Western Tailed Blue Everes amyntula <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Mike Yip<\/div>\n

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   Jeremy Tatum writes:  I didn’t see any hill-topping nymphalids on Mount Tolmie this evening (April 25), but there was one Propertius Duskywing<\/strong> <\/em><\/strong>flying around an oak near the top of the steps near the reservoir.   That was only the second one I have seen this year.  Strangely, I have yet to see a Satyr Comma this year.  Am I alone in this?<\/p>\n

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2016 April 25      Mike Yip writes from Nanoose Bay:  I was rewarded this morning (April 25) with several first-of-year Western Tailed Blues on a quick trip to the Cross Road clearcut. I also saw 6 Western Elfins, 2 Western Pine Elfins, 1 Grey Hairstreak, and several Western Spring Azures.       [Jeremy Tatum notes:  Like […]<\/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-2249","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\/2249","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=2249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}