{"id":2355,"date":"2016-05-05T18:21:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T02:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2355"},"modified":"2016-05-05T19:22:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T02:22:48","slug":"may-5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2355","title":{"rendered":"May 5"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2016 May 5<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    <\/strong>Aziza Cooper writes<\/p>\n

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   <\/strong>On Sunday, May 1, about a dozen butterfliers, led by Gordon Hart, gathered at Mount Tolmie for the monthly butterfly walk. The weather was perfect: warm and sunny. We visited four sites and saw a total of 12 species.<\/p>\n

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Mount Tolmie:<\/p>\n

Anise Swallowtail<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pale Swallowtail<\/strong><\/p>\n

Western Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong><\/p>\n

Propertius Duskywing<\/strong><\/p>\n

Spring Azure<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cabbage White<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Lupin patch next to Sooke Road at Highway 1 overpass:<\/p>\n

Silvery Blue <\/strong>– 6 or more<\/p>\n

Red Admiral<\/strong> (flyby)<\/p>\n

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Munn Road powerlines:<\/p>\n

Brown Elfin <\/strong>(including an egg on a Gaultheria<\/em> calyx)<\/p>\n

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Gordon Hart’s home, Blue Valley Road:<\/p>\n

Green Comma<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cedar Hairstreak<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mount Tolmie, 4pm:<\/p>\n

Painted Lady<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Silvery Blues gave a wonderful show, with a female on a lupin and two males perched or flying around her. We saw the tiny white eggs on the lupin heads.<\/p>\n

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To which Jeremy Tatum adds one more species – though unfortunately a deceased one.  One or two of us saw, near the Silvery Blue location, an ant dragging a dead Moss’s Elfin <\/strong>along the sidewalk.<\/p>\n

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   Annie Pang sends a photograph, taken yesterday, of a potter wasp.  Thanks to Matthias Buck for the identification.<\/p>\n

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 Potter wasp Ancistrocerus <\/em>sp.  (Hym.: Vespidae)  Annie Pang<\/p>\n

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   Rosemary Jorna sends a picture of a bee [which I believe is a Honey Bee<\/strong> – Jeremy] from Scafe Hill, May 5.<\/p>\n

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

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   Jody Wells sends a picture of a Pale Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Pale Tiger Swallowtail Papilio eurymedon <\/em>(Lep.: Papilionidae)  Jody Wells<\/div>\n

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   Jeremy Tatum writes: I saw two Red Admirals<\/strong> and a Western Tiger Swallowtail <\/strong>(only my second this year) along the Lochside Trail north of Blenkinsop Lake today.  I also met Mike and Barbara McGrenere, who said that they had just seen two Mourning Cloaks<\/strong> along the same trail.   But still no Satyr Comma.  As Enrico Fermi said, in a different context:  Where are they?<\/p>\n

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   And now, three interesting beetles. Enoclerus eximius <\/em><\/strong> found by Nathan Fisk on the maples ‎backing Esquimalt Lagoon.<\/p>\n

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   Enoclerus eximius <\/em>(Col.: Cleridae)  Nathan Fisk<\/p>\n

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   And two found by Libby Avis.  Of the first, Libby writes:  Anisosticta bitriangularis<\/em><\/strong>, the Marsh Lady Beetle<\/strong>. A very small ladybird – only about 3-4mm. We have never seen this before, but found several in a wet meadow. Taken on May 1st<\/sup> in the Alberni Valley.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Anisosticta bitriangularis <\/em>(Col.: Coccinellidae)  Libby Avis<\/div>\n

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And for this one, Libby writes:  Ribbed Pine Borer,  <\/strong>Rhagium inquisitor<\/em><\/strong>. Found on newly felled Douglas Fir also in the Alberni Valley on May 1st<\/sup>. Have seen this before in the interior, but this is the first one for us on the island.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Rhagium inquisitor <\/em>(Col.: Cerambycidae)  Libby Avis<\/div>\n

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2016 May 5       Aziza Cooper writes      On Sunday, May 1, about a dozen butterfliers, led by Gordon Hart, gathered at Mount Tolmie for the monthly butterfly walk. The weather was perfect: warm and sunny. We visited four sites and saw a total of 12 species.   Mount Tolmie: Anise Swallowtail Pale […]<\/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-2355","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\/2355","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=2355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}