{"id":2532,"date":"2016-05-25T16:03:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T00:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2532"},"modified":"2016-05-27T15:20:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T22:20:31","slug":"may-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2532","title":{"rendered":"May 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2015 May 25<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Annie Pang sends pictures of a <strong>Two-spotted Ladybird <\/strong>beetle, and of a bumblebee seeking nectar in a Foxglove.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 541px;\" title=\"Adalia.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Adalia.jpg\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Two-spotted Ladybird <em>Adalia bipunctata <\/em>(Col.: Coccinellidae)\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 494px; height: 489px;\" title=\"Bombus centralis.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Bombus-centralis.jpg\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Bombus centralis <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0 Gordon Hart sends a picture of a <strong>cicada <\/strong>from his Highlands garden.\u00a0 Thanks to Claudia Copley for the identification as a teneral <em><strong>Okanagana <\/strong><\/em><strong>sp.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Cicada.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Cicada.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"447.07278944797264\" name=\"\" \/><\/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_image006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Cicada <em><strong><\/strong>Okanagana <\/em>sp.\u00a0 (Hem.: Cicadidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Libby Avis sends photographs of a caterpillar of <strong><em>Enypia packardata<\/em><\/strong> from Rathtrevor Park, Parksville, May 4.\u00a0\u00a0 We are not sure how (or if) it is possible to distinguish this caterpillar from that of <em>E. griseata<\/em>, but we assume, from its range, that it has to be <em>packardata<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Dorsal Rathtrevor_MG_7670ar.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Dorsal-Rathtrevor_MG_7670ar.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"397.532\" name=\"\" \/><\/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_image008.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><em>Enypia packardata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Libby Avis<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 501px;\" title=\"Head front Rathtrevor_MG_7672a.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Head-front-Rathtrevor_MG_7672a.jpg\" name=\"\" \/><\/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_image010.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><em>Enypia packardata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Libby Avis<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Gerry and Wendy Ansell write: On Tuesday May 24, 2016, we saw three <strong> Purplish<\/strong> <strong>Coppers<\/strong> on the Indian Reserve north of Island View Beach Regional Park.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 506px;\" title=\"Purplish Copper - Indian Reserve N of Island View Beach - May 24, 2016.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Purplish-Copper-Indian-Reserve-N-of-Island-View-Beach-May-24-2016.jpg\" name=\"\" \/><\/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_image012.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Male Purplish Copper <em>Lycaena helloides <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Wendy Ansell<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum shows a third variation of a <strong>Large Yellow Underwing<\/strong>.\u00a0 See also May 19 and 23.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_2299.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_2299.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"456.93333333333334\" name=\"\" \/><\/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_image014.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Large Yellow Underwing <em>Noctua pronuba <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Gaskin writes: \u201cToday, May 25, I looked for butterflies on the Galloping Goose trail from Sooke Road at Glen Lake Road to the Colwood exit of the Island Highway. My results are the following:\u00a0 <strong>Cabbage White 25, Western Tiger Swallowtail\u00a0 6,\u00a0 Lorquin\u2019s Admiral\u00a0 2,\u00a0 Pale Tiger Swallowtail\u00a0 1, <\/strong>\u00a0and<strong> Western Spring Azure\u00a0 1.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 2015 May 25 \u00a0 Annie Pang sends pictures of a Two-spotted Ladybird beetle, and of a bumblebee seeking nectar in a Foxglove. &nbsp; Two-spotted Ladybird Adalia bipunctata (Col.: Coccinellidae)\u00a0 Annie Pang Bombus centralis (Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Annie Pang \u00a0 Gordon Hart sends a picture of a cicada from his Highlands garden.\u00a0 Thanks to Claudia Copley [&hellip;]<\/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-2532","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\/2532","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=2532"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2557,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532\/revisions\/2557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}