{"id":2400,"date":"2016-05-10T19:18:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T03:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2400"},"modified":"2016-05-10T20:27:13","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T03:27:13","slug":"may-10-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2400","title":{"rendered":"May 10"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   <\/strong>Val George writes:  Late afternoon May 9 at the summit of Mount Douglas the following butterflies were present:  2 Painted Ladies, 2 Red Admirals, 1 Milbert’s Tortoiseshell<\/strong> (photo attached).<\/p>\n

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Milbert’s Tortoiseshell Aglais milberti <\/em> (Lep.: Nymphalidae)<\/div>\n

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   Jeff Gaskin writes:  Today, May 10, the Tuesday Birding Group went to Layritz Park and Broadcast Hill and saw the following butterflies: From Layritz Park we saw some Western Spring Azures<\/strong>, one “Ringlet<\/strong>”  <\/strong> (a.k.a. Large Heath<\/strong>), one Propertius Duskywing<\/strong>, two Western Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong> and some Cabbage Whites. <\/strong> One Pale Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong> was near the top of Broadcast Hill and I saw a Western Brown Elfin<\/strong>  at a private residence at the corner of Glyn Road and Layritz Avenue.<\/p>\n

   To which Aziza Cooper adds:  I went to Layritz Park and Broadcast Hill with the VNHS birding group. I also found a Grey Hairstreak<\/strong>.  <\/p>\n

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   Aziza adds: During my visit to Cameron Main on April 30, I found some ants<\/strong> with a silvery band around their abdomen. They were at the same spot as the Western Tailed<\/strong> Blues<\/strong>, about a half a mile up the road from the junction with the Connector to Highway 14.<\/p>\n

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\"\"“Ringlet” (Large Heath) Coenonympha tullia <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae – Satyrinae) <\/div>\n

 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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\"\"Propertius Duskywing Erynnis propertius <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Aziza Cooper<\/div>\n

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\"\"Grey Hairstreak Strymon melinus <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Aziza Cooper<\/div>\n

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\"\"Ants (Hym.: Formicidae)  Aziza Cooper<\/div>\n

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  Rosemary Jorna writes:  There were a dozen or so of these Western Spring Azures<\/strong> spaced along the walk at Sooke Potholes, May 9.  I also saw three Pale Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong>, and a Western Pine Efin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Western Spring Azure Celestrina echo<\/em>  <\/em>Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Rosemary Jorna<\/div>\n

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Western Pine Elfin Incisalia eryphon <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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   Rosemary continues:  There were many species of butterflies but in the hot afternoon sunshine they were zipping along but I did get this moth.<\/p>\n

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Adela septentrionella <\/em>(Lep.: Incurvariidae)   Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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2016 May 10      Val George writes:  Late afternoon May 9 at the summit of Mount Douglas the following butterflies were present:  2 Painted Ladies, 2 Red Admirals, 1 Milbert’s Tortoiseshell (photo attached).   Milbert’s Tortoiseshell Aglais milberti (Lep.: Nymphalidae)      Jeff Gaskin writes:  Today, May 10, the Tuesday Birding Group went to […]<\/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-2400","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\/2400","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=2400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}