{"id":3928,"date":"2017-04-22T03:06:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T03:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3928"},"modified":"2017-04-21T20:15:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T03:15:04","slug":"april-21-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3928","title":{"rendered":"April 21"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2017 April 21<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Steven Roias sends a picture of a micro moth photographed on his front porch on April 24.\u00a0 We believe it is either Epinotia emarginana <\/em><\/strong>or E. solandriana<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 These two species are both very variable, and Steven\u2019s moth could fit either.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Epinotia emarginana<\/em>\/solandriana <\/em> (Lep.: Tortricidae – Olethreutinae)\u00a0 Steven Roias<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 The rather unappealing creature below is the maggot of a tachinid fly<\/strong>, which came from a pupa of a Pale Tiger Swallowtail, whose caterpillar was found last fall by Devon Parker.\u00a0\u00a0 The butterfly caterpillar and pupa were shown on this site for 2016 September 8 and 16.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Tachinid fly maggot\u00a0 (Dip.:\u00a0 Tachinidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n

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Butterflies are still scarce, and Rosemary Jorna reports that, as of yesterday (April 20), she has still to see her first butterfly of the year.<\/p>\n

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But today, April 21, the Sun is out and it is warm, so a few butterflies are at last out.\u00a0 Devon Parker reports that from Bear Hill he saw 4 Sara Orangetips, 4 Moss\u2019s Elfins,<\/strong> and 2 Western Spring Azures<\/strong> on Bear Mountain. (He also saw a Western Spring Azure at Florence Lake on April 16.)\u00a0 He writes that one of the Moss\u2019s Elfins was nectaring on a Dandelion, and another on Claytonia parviflora<\/em>. He notes that he has seen some Cabbage Whites <\/strong>from downtown Victoria to North Saanich in the last few days. Not far away on the Pathfinder Trail off Munn Road, Jeremy Tatum saw 6 Western Spring Azures, 7 Sara Orangetips, 5 Western Brown Elfins <\/strong> and 5 Moss\u2019s Elfins <\/strong>(in 2.5 hours\u2019 searching). All but the Western Brown Elfin were firsts-for-the-year for him. He notes that one of the Orangetips was nectaring on Dandelion!\u00a0 He also saw a few Cabbage Whites<\/strong> from the car window on his way to Munn Road.<\/p>\n

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And even as I type, a message comes in from Nathan Fisk titled:\u00a0 \u201cWhat a day, Jeremy!\u201d\u00a0 So let\u2019s see what Nathan has to report.\u00a0 He says \u201cThe creatures have burst to life!\u00a0 He saw Western Spring Azures, Sara Orange Tips <\/strong>and Cabbage Whites <\/strong>at Fort Rodd Hill, and he sends photographs of a Western Brown Elfin<\/strong> and a Satyr Comma.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I believe the latter is the first one reported to Invert Alert this year.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Western Brown Elfin Incisalisa iroides <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Nathan Fisk<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Satyr Comma\u00a0Polygonia satyrus\u00a0<\/em> (Lep.:\u00a0 Nymphalidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Nathan Fisk<\/p>\n

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Rosemary Jorna sends a photograph of a beetle on Spring Gold on the top of Mount Wells yesterday, April 20.\u00a0 Thanks to Charlene Wood for identifying it as a Soft-winged<\/strong> Flower Beetle, <\/strong>Listrus<\/em><\/strong> sp.<\/strong> of the Family Melyridae.\u00a0 Need to have a close look at the naughty bits to be sure of the exact species.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Listrus <\/em>sp. (Col.: Melyridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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2017 April 21 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Steven Roias sends a picture of a micro moth photographed on his front porch on April 24.\u00a0 We believe it is either Epinotia emarginana or E. solandriana.\u00a0 These two species are both very variable, and Steven\u2019s moth could fit either.   \u00a0Epinotia emarginana\/solandriana (Lep.: Tortricidae – Olethreutinae)\u00a0 Steven Roias \u00a0\u00a0 […]<\/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-3928","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\/3928","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=3928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3934,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions\/3934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}