{"id":2625,"date":"2016-06-05T09:19:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T17:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2625"},"modified":"2016-06-07T19:45:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T02:45:40","slug":"june-5-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2625","title":{"rendered":"June 5 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2016 June 5 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Monthly Butterfly Walk.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Quick last-minute reminder.\u00a0 All welcome.\u00a0 Meet at the top of Mount Tolmie at 1:00 p.m. today, Sunday June 5.\u00a0 Destination to be decided then.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Elizabeth Garrett sends a photograph of a Sheep Moth <\/strong>caterpillar.\u00a0 Beware, if you see any of these – they can give you a rash if you handle them!<\/p>\n

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Sheep Moth Hemileuca eglanterina <\/em>(Lep.: Saturniidae)\u00a0 Wylie Thomas<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s the upperside of the moth photographed by Devon Parker on May 31 (June 1 posting) near Jordan River.\u00a0 This enables us to identify it with certainty as Drasteria divergens<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Drasteria divergens <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae – Erebinae)\u00a0 Devon Parker<\/div>\n

Here is a beetle from Devon\u2019s May 31 Jordan River trip. Thanks to Charlene Wood for identifying it as Ditylus quadricollis<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"False blister beetle\u00a0Ditylus quadricollis<\/em> (Col.: Oedemeridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Devon Parker<\/div>\n

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Annie Pang sends a photograph of a long-horned bee identified by Linc R. Best as Melissodes <\/em><\/strong>sp.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"Melissodes <\/em>sp.: (Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/div>\n

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Aziza Cooper writes:\u00a0 A visit with Moralea Milne to the Jordan Rover area on June 4 resulted in:<\/p>\n

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Clodius Parnassian<\/strong> – 1<\/p>\n

Pale Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong> – 1<\/p>\n

comma – 8 or more – possibly Green Comma<\/strong><\/p>\n

Western Brown Elfin<\/strong> – 6<\/p>\n

Western Pine Elfin<\/strong> – 2<\/p>\n

Two-banded Grizzled Skipper<\/strong> – 1<\/p>\n

blues<\/strong>: 4 or more of at least\u00a0two species.<\/p>\n

Johnson\u2019s Hairstreak<\/strong> – 1<\/p>\n

Mylitta Crescent<\/strong> – 1<\/p>\n

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\"\"Johnson\u2019s Hairstreak Loranthomitoura johnsoni <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/div>\n

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\"\"Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper\"\"<\/p>\n

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Maybe Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo<\/em><\/p>\n

(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

\u00a0 In an earlier version of this posting, I asked viewers to suggest what the butterfly in the above photograph is.\u00a0 Opinion seems to be gravitating towards Western Spring Azure.\u00a0 I’ll go along with that – Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2016 June 5 morning \u00a0 Monthly Butterfly Walk.\u00a0 Quick last-minute reminder.\u00a0 All welcome.\u00a0 Meet at the top of Mount Tolmie at 1:00 p.m. today, Sunday June 5.\u00a0 Destination to be decided then. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Elizabeth Garrett sends a photograph of a Sheep Moth caterpillar.\u00a0 Beware, if you see any of these – they […]<\/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-2625","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\/2625","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=2625"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2650,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions\/2650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}