{"id":3867,"date":"2017-04-14T03:09:52","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T03:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3867"},"modified":"2017-04-14T09:11:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T16:11:02","slug":"april-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3867","title":{"rendered":"April 13"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2017 April 13<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Message from Gordon Hart<\/strong><\/p>\n

April Butterfly Count<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Hi Butterfly Counters.<\/p>\n

This weekend marks the beginning of the 2017 Butterfly Count season.\u00a0As always, the count period is from the third Saturday to\u00a0the fourth Sunday – nine days, or April 15-23<\/strong> this year. You can submit a count anytime over this period, and you can do more than one count, just use a separate form for each count. In the case of repeat counts, or more than one person counting an area, I will take the highest count for each species.<\/p>\n

Please use the form at\u00a0https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=33<\/a>\u00a0on the Victoria Natural History Society website.<\/p>\n

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The count area is the same as the Christmas Bird Count circle (attached). For butterfly identification there are numerous internet sites, but most or all Victoria species are listed on E-Fauna. If you select by photographer, all the photos under James Miskelly\u2019s name are of Victoria species. Here is the link:\u00a0http:\/\/linnet.geog.ubc.ca\/efauna\/photoGallery\/Gallery.aspx?gr=showall&pid=175&photographer=miskelly,%20james&specrep=0<\/a><\/p>\n

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If you would like a suggestion for an area to count, please send me an email\u00a0 (hartgordon19 at gmail dot com). This year, Mount Tolmie and the University of Victoria grounds, including the dog walking area, are available. If you can only do your backyard or your neighbourhood, that is good, too.<\/p>\n

In addition to the counts, a monthly butterfly walk is held on the first Sunday of each month – May 6th, \u00a0is the next walk. We start at the summit of Mount Tolmie at 1pm, and decide where to go from there. The walk will be cancelled if the weather is cool or rainy.<\/p>\n

Thank-you for submitting your sightings and happy counting!<\/p>\n

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Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

Butterfly Count Coordinator<\/p>\n

Victoria Natural History Society<\/p>\n

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Count circle map link:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/christmasbirdcount.ca\/bcvi\/CBCMaps.html#VictoriaMap<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jody Wells sends a photograph of a wolf spider<\/strong> among driftwood near the tip of Cordova Spit, April 12.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Wolf spider Pardosa vancouveri <\/em>(Ara.: Lycosidae)\u00a0 Jody Wells<\/p>\n

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Libby Avis photographed the spectacular syrphid fly Eristalinus aeneus <\/em><\/strong>at Piper\u2019s Lagoon, Nanaimo, April 12.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Eristalinus aeneus <\/em>(Dip.: Syrphidae)\u00a0 Libby Avis<\/div>\n

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Triphosa haesitata<\/em><\/strong>\/<\/strong>Coryphista meadii.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 <\/strong>Viewers will have noticed that from time to time on this site we have had occasion to puzzle over the identification of these two very similar geometrid moths.\u00a0 The caterpillars are very different, and they are quite different species – but we have been trying to find subtle ways of distinguishing the adults of this difficult pair.\u00a0 On our April 9 posting, after humming and hawing for a while, I opted for Coryphista meadii <\/em>as the probable identity of a moth photographed by Devon Parker in Esquimalt.\u00a0 Now – scroll down to April 9 to find the amazing true identity of Devon\u2019s moth, as revealed by Libby Avis!<\/p>\n

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Today, Devon writes:\u00a0 Today Ian, Rick and I went out to East Sooke Park along the coast trail. We found six Moss’s Elfins<\/em><\/strong> and a lot of flies of one species.\u00a0 Thanks to Drs Jeff Skevington and James O’Hara for identifying the fly as Epalpus signifer <\/em><\/strong>– a parasitoidal fly of certain noctuid moths.<\/p>\n

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Moss\u2019s Elfin Incisalia mossii <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Devon Parker<\/p>\n

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Epalpus signifer <\/em>(Dip.: Tachinidae)\u00a0 Devon Parker<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 And, talking of flies, we now have an identification for Thomas Barbin\u2019s fly posted yesterday.\u00a0 Scroll down to April 12.<\/p>\n

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