{"id":2254,"date":"2016-04-26T15:22:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T23:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2254"},"modified":"2016-04-30T09:08:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T16:08:19","slug":"april-26-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2254","title":{"rendered":"April 26"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Gerry and Wendy Ansell write that there was a Propertius Duskywing<\/strong> in a Garry Oak meadow on Mount Tolmie this afternoon (Tues. Apr. 26) \u2013 their first for the year.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Gordon Hart, in response to my query re Satyr Commas, writes:\u00a0 I have not yet seen a Satyr Comma this year either. There were four reported during the April count period, all from Prospect Lake Road west into the Highlands and Colwood. In our yard I have only seen Green Commas and have been able to see them all closely and photograph them so I am pretty sure they have all been P. faunus<\/em>.\u00a0 Meanwhile, Gordon continues: Today in our yard in the Highlands District, I saw my first of the year Two-banded Grizzled Skipper<\/strong>, two Cedar Hairstreaks<\/strong>, a Sara Orangetip<\/strong>, one Green Comma<\/strong>, and several Western Spring Azures.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Female Sara Orangetip Anthocharis sara <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Green Comma Polygonia faunus <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart\"\"<\/p>\n

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Cedar Hairstreak Mitoura rosneri <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae) Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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Mike Yip writes from Nanoose Bay: It’s always a challenge to find a Western Spring<\/strong> Azure<\/strong> with its wings open, but a female obliged right at my feet this afternoon. Even more difficult is the dorsal view of the Western Pine Elfin<\/strong> or any of our elfins for that matter.\u00a0I still haven’t seen one with its wings open, but I got a hint of what it might look like in the attached shot.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Female Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/div>\n

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\"\"Western Pine Elfin Incisalia eryphon <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/div>\n

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Jeremy Tatum writes: I thought I\u2019d try my hand a photographing a spider, so I photographed this one at Swan Lake today (April 26).\u00a0 Thanks to Robb Bennett, who writes: A long-jawed orbweaver, Family Tetragnathidae.\u00a0 This one is almost certainly Tetragnatha versicolor<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Tetragnathids are often hugely abundant, anywhere that is even remotely damp, but especially on the margins of streams, ponds, and lakes, or in wet meadows.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Tetragnatha versicolor <\/em>(Ara.: Tetragnathidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n

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Nathan Fisk sends a photograph of eggs of a ladybird beetle from Island View Beach, April 25, low down of the stem of a Contorted-pod Evening Primrose Camissonia contorta.<\/em>\u00a0 Nathan asks: Why would it choose this location to lay? Mysteries abound!<\/p>\n

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\"\"Ladybird beetle eggs (Col.: Coccinellidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Nathan Fisk<\/div>\n

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  2016 April 26 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Gerry and Wendy Ansell write that there was a Propertius Duskywing in a Garry Oak meadow on Mount Tolmie this afternoon (Tues. Apr. 26) \u2013 their first for the year. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Hart, in response to my query re Satyr Commas, writes:\u00a0 I have not yet seen a […]<\/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-2254","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\/2254","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=2254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2304,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions\/2304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}