{"id":2514,"date":"2016-05-24T08:30:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T16:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2514"},"modified":"2016-05-24T09:36:09","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T16:36:09","slug":"may-24-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2514","title":{"rendered":"May 24"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    <\/strong>Here are some photographs of Boisduval’s Blue <\/strong> from Devon Parker’s trip to the clear cuts west of Spectacle Lake on May 19.  Also a Western Spring Azure <\/strong>from there, and two that we can’t be 100 percent sure of, but which may be Silvery Blues.<\/strong>   <\/strong>The first photograph is of a fairly battered individual, and it appears to have the marks of a bird’s bill on its wings, especially the right hindwing, and near the tornus of the right forewing.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Boisduval’s Blue Icaricia icarioides <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Devon Parker<\/div>\n

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\"\"Boisduval’s Blue Icaricia icarioides <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Devon Parker<\/div>\n

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\"\"Boisduval’s Blue Icaricia icarioides <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Devon Parker<\/div>\n

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 <\/strong>Boisduval’s Blue Icaricia icarioides <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Devon Parker<\/p>\n

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\"\"Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Devon Parker<\/div>\n

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\"\"Maybe Silvery Blue ? Glaucopsyche lygdamus <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Devon Parker<\/div>\n

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Maybe Silvery Blue ? Glaucopsyche lygdamus <\/em> (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Devon Parker<\/p>\n

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    While near Spectacle Lake on May 22, Devon photographed the moth below:<\/p>\n

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Hemaris thetis<\/em>  <\/em>(Lep.: Sphingidae)   Devon Parker<\/p>\n

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   Libby Avis sends some photographs from a hike to Cous Estuary in the Alberni Valley, Saturday May 21st<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

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 Buprestis aurulenta <\/em>(Col.: Buprestidae)   Libby Avis<\/p>\n

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\"\"Chrysolina quadrigemina\/hyperici <\/em>(Col.: Chrysomelidae)  Libby Avis<\/div>\n

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Libby writes:  Both are European species released here to control St John’s Wort.  Hard to tell apart without dissection, although Bug Guide says quadrigemina<\/em> seems to be more common. We saw large numbers of them all clustered on the host plant.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Leptarctia californiae <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)  Libby Avis<\/div>\n

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   Annie Pang sends a photograph of a male Philodromus dispar<\/em> from Victoria, May 21.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Philodromus dispar <\/em>(Ara.: Philodromidae) Annie Pang.<\/div>\n

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   During the two-Parker two-Jeremy expedition on May 14 to find the Johnson’s Hairstreak in the Jordan River area, we came across a handsome noctuid caterpillar on an<\/p>\n

alder leaf. Jeremy Gatten soon after identified it as Eurois <\/em>sp., and further reference to David Wagner’s book on owlet caterpillars revealed that it was almost certainly Eurois<\/em><\/strong> <\/strong>astricta.<\/em><\/strong>  <\/strong>While it initially continued to feed on alder, it very soon turned its attention to Hardhack which I had brought in for somebody else.  Here is a picture of the caterpillar.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Eurois astricta <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)    Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n

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2016 May 24       Here are some photographs of Boisduval’s Blue from Devon Parker’s trip to the clear cuts west of Spectacle Lake on May 19.  Also a Western Spring Azure from there, and two that we can’t be 100 percent sure of, but which may be Silvery Blues.   The first photograph is of […]<\/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-2514","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\/2514","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=2514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}