{"id":2319,"date":"2016-05-01T19:04:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T03:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2319"},"modified":"2016-05-22T10:03:46","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T17:03:46","slug":"may-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2319","title":{"rendered":"May 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2016 May 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>The VNHS had its monthly Butterfly Walk today.\u00a0 An excellent day, but we are all (especially me, Jeremy Tatum) so exhausted after it, that we\u2019ll postpone a report on it until tomorrow!<\/p>\n

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Jeff Gaskin reports a Mourning Cloak <\/strong>at Swan Lake, on the main trail in front of Saanich Municipal Hall on April 28.\u00a0 He also reports four or more Silvery Blues <\/strong>along the highway (Sooke Road) on the lupins at the Colwood exit.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I found this dragonfly nymph exuvia at Swan Lake on April 28.\u00a0\u00a0 Thank you to Rob Cannings for identifying it as a California Darner<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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California Darner Rhionaeschna californica <\/em> (Odo.: Aeshnidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Scott Gilmore found a couple of interesting beetles at Upper Lantzville on April 30.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Helops laetus <\/em>(Col.: Tenebrionidae) Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n

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Cryptorhyncus lapathi <\/em>(Col.: Curculionidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Scott Gilmore<\/div>\n

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Annie Pang sends a picture of a female Western Spring Azure, <\/strong> and a small bee, which L.R. Best suggests is a small carpenter bee of the genus Ceratina<\/em><\/strong>, <\/strong>and a brown lacewing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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\"\"Small carpenter bee\u00a0 Ceratina <\/em>sp.(Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/div>\n

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\"\"Brown lacewing (Neu.: Hemerobiidae)\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Here is another view of the little reddish-brown moth that Ron Flower and Gordon Hart saw at Munn Road on April 27 (see April 29 posting).<\/p>\n

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\"\"Leptostales rubromarginaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Ron Flower<\/div>\n

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Jeremy Tatum writes: Here is a caterpillar of Enargia <\/em>infumata<\/em><\/strong>. <\/strong>\u00a0found between two cottonwood leaves along Lochside trail south of Blenkinsop Lake today.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Enargia infumata<\/em> (Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n

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Here is a Spotted Tiger Moth<\/strong> from the campus of the University of Victoria today.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Spotted Tiger Moth Lophocampa maculata <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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