{"id":2680,"date":"2016-06-11T18:06:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T02:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2680"},"modified":"2016-06-11T19:14:18","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T02:14:18","slug":"june-11-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2680","title":{"rendered":"June 11"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2106 June 11<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum shows caterpillars of three butterflies. First, a Western Spring Azure.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Found yesterday in an Ocean Spray panicle at Blenkinsop Lake.<\/p>\n

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

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\u00a0 Next a Red Admiral<\/strong>, found while I was looking (unsuccessfully) for caterpillars of the Satyr Comma, usually so common in Lochside Drive south of Blenkinsop Lake.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae) Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n

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Lastly a Two-banded Grizzled Skipper.<\/strong>.\u00a0 This came from the egg found by Devon Parker near Jordan River (see May 15 posting).\u00a0 Although the egg was laid on Rubus ursinus<\/em>, the caterpillar seems to prefer Fragaria vesca<\/em>.\u00a0 The caterpillar is resting in classical pyrgine caterpillar style, looking backwards over its shoulder.<\/p>\n

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Two-banded Grizzled Skipper Pyrgus ruralis <\/em> (Lep.: Hesperiidae)<\/p>\n

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Annie Pang sends a picture of a Common Emerald <\/strong>moth from her back door yesterday.\u00a0 This European moth has become quite common in Victoria.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Common Emerald Hemithea aestivaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) Annie Pang<\/div>\n

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Aziza Cooper writes:\u00a0 Yesterday, June 9 and today, June 10 I saw Milbert’s Tortoiseshell<\/strong> briefly. Yesterday was at the lollipop boardwalk at Swan Lake, and today was on the south face of Mt Douglas below the west summit.<\/p>\n

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Other butterflies June 10 at Mt Douglas were:<\/p>\n

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

Anise Swallowtail – 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Lorquin’s Admiral – 4<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cabbage White – 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reddish-brown flyby – possible Sheep Moth<\/p>\n

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Aziza sends a photograph of a moth, taken on June 10, on the south face of Mount Douglas below the west summit just above treetop level.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum responds:\u00a0\u00a0 This is Digrammia muscariata,<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 a moth associated with Garry Oak.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Digrammia muscariata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/div>\n

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2106 June 11 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum shows caterpillars of three butterflies. First, a Western Spring Azure.\u00a0 Found yesterday in an Ocean Spray panicle at Blenkinsop Lake.   Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo (Lep.: Lycaenidae) Jeremy Tatum \u00a0 Next a Red Admiral, found while I was looking (unsuccessfully) for caterpillars of the Satyr Comma, usually […]<\/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-2680","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\/2680","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=2680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2687,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions\/2687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}