{"id":2305,"date":"2016-04-30T18:53:01","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T02:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2305"},"modified":"2016-04-30T20:00:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T03:00:49","slug":"april-30-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2305","title":{"rendered":"April 30"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   <\/strong> Here is Mike Yip’s geometrid from Cross Road, Nanoose Bay, April 29.  It is Xanthorhoe defensaria.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"Xanthorhoe defensaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Mike Yip<\/div>\n

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   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Bill Savale and I went to the Kinsol Trestle today, hoping to find Western Tailed Blues.  No luck – the Lathyrus<\/em> that they depend on were not yet in flower. Besides Western Spring Azures <\/strong>and Cabbage Whites<\/strong>, we saw a Red Admiral<\/strong> and a Two-banded Grizzled Skipper.<\/strong>  <\/strong>Jeremy adds that at 6:00 p.m. this evening there were a Red Admiral <\/strong>and a California Tortoiseshell<\/strong> on the Mount Tolmie reservoir.<\/p>\n

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   Annie Pang sends a picture of a Two-spotted Ladybird.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"Two-spotted Ladybird Adalia bipunctata<\/em>  <\/em>(Col.: Coccinellidae)  Annie Pang<\/div>\n

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   Rosemary Jorna writes: I’ll bet this Ladybird Beetle<\/strong> found on the spit at Witty’s Lagoon, April 30 2016, is Harmonia axyridis<\/em><\/strong>.  Jeremy Tatum responds: With that big black W <\/strong>on its thorax, so do I!<\/p>\n

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\"\"Harmonia axyridis <\/em>(Col.: Coccinellidae)  Rosemary Jorna<\/div>\n

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   Rosemary continues:  This little bug that appeared on the lens of my camera at Witty’s Lagoon, April 30 2016, was tentatively identified as a spittle bug nymph<\/strong> by the naturalists at Metchosin’s Biodiversity Day.  [Yes – I’ll go along with that – Jeremy.]  She also sends a photograph of a bee from the same area.<\/p>\n

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 Spittlebug nymph, possibly Philaenus spumarius <\/em>(Hem.: Aphrophoridae) <\/p>\n

Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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\"\"Honey Bee Apis mellifera <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae)  Rosemary Jorna.<\/div>\n

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   Mike Yip writes from Nanoose Bay:  It really felt like butterfly weather this morning so I decided to check out the Sundew Main logging road. As usual, Western Spring<\/strong> Azures<\/strong> were abundant, and commas continued to be non-existent. [I still haven’t seen a Satyr Comma! – Jeremy]  Species available were a pair of first-of-year Mylitta Crescents<\/strong>, 5 Pale Tiger Swallowtails, 1 Sara Orangetip, 2 Western Brown Elfins, 4 Grey Hairstreaks, 5 Two-banded Grizzled Skippers,<\/strong> and 1 Cabbage White.<\/strong>  A late afternoon walk at the Cross Road trail was relatively quiet with only a few Western Spring Azures, 3 Western Brown Elfins<\/strong>, one Western Tailed Blue<\/strong>, and one Mourning<\/strong> Cloak.<\/strong> The Western Tailed Blue had better tails than the previous one I sent you.<\/p>\n

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

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\"\"Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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 Grey Hairstreak Strymon melinus <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Mike Yip\"\"<\/p>\n

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Male Mylitta Crescent Phyciodes mylitta <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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

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2016 April 30       Here is Mike Yip’s geometrid from Cross Road, Nanoose Bay, April 29.  It is Xanthorhoe defensaria.   Xanthorhoe defensaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Mike Yip      Jeremy Tatum writes:  Bill Savale and I went to the Kinsol Trestle today, hoping to find Western Tailed Blues.  No luck – the Lathyrus that […]<\/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-2305","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\/2305","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=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}