{"id":23389,"date":"2024-09-02T08:38:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T15:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=23389"},"modified":"2024-09-05T08:58:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T15:58:46","slug":"2024-september-2-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=23389","title":{"rendered":"2024 September 2 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"

2024 September 2 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gordon Hart writes:\u00a0 Here is a summary of yesterday\u2019s Butterfly Walk There were no butterflies at Mount Tolmie at 1 p.m. but we decided that Island View Beach might be a good place to look. Six people made their way there, and decided to take the beach path as we thought it might be a bit cooler closer to the water. It was still very warm, but we did see at least 23 butterflies of three species, plus a mystery moth in flight, and several bee\u00a0and wasp species. Butterflies seen were: Cabbage Whites, 7+; Purplish Coppers, 3 males, 3 females; and Woodland Skippers, at least 7.
\n<\/strong>The moth was possibly a Vapourer Moth, <\/strong>or Rusty Tussock Moth<\/strong>, inferred from its manner of flight.<\/p>\n

Jeremy Tatum adds: The Purplish Coppers were the first reported this year.\u00a0 I was afraid that we might go through the whole year without any being reported.\u00a0 The first two seen on yesterday\u2019s walk were a male and a female (they are quite distinctive), being very cooperative as they nectared on the flowers of a nearby Gumweed.\u00a0 They caused great excitement among the participants, several of whom were armed with big cameras, which were fairly clicking for several minutes.<\/p>\n

Here are some photographs taken during the walk.\u00a0 Note the copper\u2019s scientific genus name change from previous years.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Male Purplish Copper \u00a0Tharsalia helloides\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n

\"\"Male Purplish Copper \u00a0Tharsalia helloides\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

\"\"Female Purplish Copper \u00a0Tharsalia helloides\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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\"\"Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides \u00a0<\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

\"\"Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides \u00a0<\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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Ian Cooper has been away in Ontario for a while visiting relatives.\u00a0 He is now back and has wasted no time in getting his camera clicking here again on the Galloping Goose trail near Talcott Road in View Royal, August 31.<\/p>\n

\"\"Large Yellow Underwing Moth – Noctua pronuba<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0\u00a0Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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\"\"Snail-eating Beetle – Scaphinotus angusticollis<\/em>\u00a0(Col.: Carabidae)\u00a0\u00a0Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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\"\"Limax maximus<\/em>\u00a0 (Pul.: Limacidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\u00a0 Dr Robb Bennett kindly confirmed Ian\u2019s identification of the spiders below.<\/p>\n

\"\"Female Callobius pictus<\/em>\u00a0(Ara.: Amaurobiidae)\u00a0\u00a0Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Male Callobius pictus<\/em>\u00a0(Ara.: Amaurobiidae)\u00a0\u00a0Ian Cooper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2024 September 2 morning Gordon Hart writes:\u00a0 Here is a summary of yesterday\u2019s Butterfly Walk There were no butterflies at Mount Tolmie at 1 p.m. but we decided that Island View Beach might be a good place to look. Six people made their way there, and decided to take the beach path as we thought […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23389","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\/23389","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23389"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23436,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23389\/revisions\/23436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}