{"id":2442,"date":"2016-05-15T19:21:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T03:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2442"},"modified":"2016-05-17T09:39:45","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T16:39:45","slug":"may-15-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2442","title":{"rendered":"May 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2016 May 15<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Gatten and Jeremy Tatum wish to express their great appreciation to Michael and Devon Parker for showing us the <strong>Johnson\u2019s Hairstreak <\/strong>near Jordan River yesterday (May 14).\u00a0 We all had excellent views of this rare butterfly.\u00a0 We also saw the <strong>Hoary ( \u201cZephyr\u201d) Comma, <\/strong>an unidentified comma but thought to be probably a<strong> Green Comma<\/strong>,\u00a0 a few <strong>Western Pine Elfins <\/strong>and<strong> Two-banded Grizzled Skippers.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Gatten found a caterpillar of the moth <strong><em>Campaea perlata<\/em><\/strong><strong>, <\/strong>And Jeremy Tatum was excited by an as-yet-to be-identified noctuid caterpillar.\u00a0 Here is Jeremy Tatum\u2019s photograph of Jeremy Gatten\u2019s <em>Campaea perlata.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"C perlata la.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/C-perlata-la.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"321.84\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><em>Campaea perlata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum also thanks Devon for letting him have one of the eggs of the <strong> Two-banded Grizzled Skipper<\/strong>, which he saw being laid on <em>Rubus ursinus<\/em> near Jordan Rover on May 10.\u00a0 The egg hatched early on the morning of May 14, and the young caterpillar is being offered two species of <em>Rubus <\/em>\u00a0and two of <em>Fragaria<\/em>.\u00a0 So far, it has been nibbling on <em> Rubus ursinus.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"ruralis ovum.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ruralis-ovum.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"408.26\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Two-banded Grizzled Skipper <em>Pyrgus ruralis <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum apologizes, but he is a little behind with Invert Alert.\u00a0 There are lots of fine photographs in the queue, and I\u2019ll try and get them all up in the next couple of days.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2016 May 15 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Gatten and Jeremy Tatum wish to express their great appreciation to Michael and Devon Parker for showing us the Johnson\u2019s Hairstreak near Jordan River yesterday (May 14).\u00a0 We all had excellent views of this rare butterfly.\u00a0 We also saw the Hoary ( \u201cZephyr\u201d) Comma, an unidentified comma but thought 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