{"id":2378,"date":"2016-05-08T09:15:36","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T17:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2378"},"modified":"2016-05-08T10:16:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T17:16:33","slug":"may-8-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2378","title":{"rendered":"May 8 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2016 May 8 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n

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   <\/strong>Mike Yip writes:  Looks like another good year for the “<\/strong>Taylor<\/strong>‘s” Checkerspots <\/strong>on Denman Island. I had no trouble finding about 30 right at the entrance to Denman Provincial Park on Thursday May 5.<\/p>\n

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   Today I spent an hour checking some areas a short way past the Saddle parking spot on Mount Cokely and found 5 Sara Orangetips, 6 Hoary “Zephyr” Commas, 3 Western Brown Elfins, 1 Western Pine Elfin, 2 Cedar Hairstreaks, 3 Mylitta Crescents, <\/strong>and <\/strong>several Silvery Blues.<\/strong> The bonus moths [Thank you, Libby Avis, for the identifications!] and ladybird are also from Cokely. After Cokely I checked the Northwest Bay logging road and found many Western Tailed Blues, Western Spring Azures, <\/strong>a few Silvery Blues, <\/strong>and 4 Mylitta Crescents<\/strong>. I was hoping for a duskywing but had to settle for a few dark, day-flying, duskywing-imitating moths. <\/p>\n

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The Cedar Hairstreak<\/strong> is from my garden and the Moss’s Elfin<\/strong> from Mount Cokely.<\/p>\n

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Edith’s (“Taylor’s”) Checkerspot Euphydryas editha taylori <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)  <\/p>\n

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 Hoary (“Zephyr”) Comma Polygonia gracilis zephyrus <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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 Hoary (“Zephyr”) Comma Polygonia gracilis zephyrus <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)<\/p>\n

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 Harmonia axyridis <\/em>(Col.: Coccinellidae)  Mike Yip\"\"<\/p>\n

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Thallophaga taylorata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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[“Thallophaga” is Greek for “fern-eater” – which is what the caterpillar does!]<\/p>\n

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

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

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 Moss’s Elfin Incisalia mossii <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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\"\"Euclidia ardita <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae – Erebinae)  Mike Yip<\/div>\n

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   Rebecca Reader-Lee sends a photograph of an American Emerald Dragonfly<\/strong> from the North Highlands.  We are grateful to Rob Cannings for the identification.<\/p>\n

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\"\"American Emerald Cordulia shurtleffi <\/em>(Odo.: Corduliidae)  Rebecca Reader-Lee<\/div>\n

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    Jeremy Tatum sends a picture of a Spilosoma virginica<\/em><\/strong> – <\/strong>the adult of the well-known Yellow Woolly Bear – from the Blenkinsop Valley, May 7.<\/p>\n

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 Spilosoma virginica <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)   Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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   And a spider, which he spotted in his bathtub just before taking his morning shower:<\/p>\n

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Scotophaeus blackwalli <\/em>(Ara.: Gnaphosidae)  Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n

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2016 May 8 morning      Mike Yip writes:  Looks like another good year for the “Taylor‘s” Checkerspots on Denman Island. I had no trouble finding about 30 right at the entrance to Denman Provincial Park on Thursday May 5.      Today I spent an hour checking some areas a short way past the Saddle […]<\/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-2378","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\/2378","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=2378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}