{"id":4068,"date":"2017-05-06T16:41:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T23:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4068"},"modified":"2017-05-08T07:45:26","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T14:45:26","slug":"may-6-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4068","title":{"rendered":"May 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2017 May 6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>Reminder:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>Monthly Butterfly Walk tomorrow.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Meet at the top of Mount Tolmie, 1:00 pm. Sunday May 7.\u00a0 All welcome.\u00a0 For details, see the May 4 posting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I have been visited by very few moths at my Saanich apartment this year, and I have been feeling neglected.\u00a0 This morning, however, I was at last favoured with a visit by a moth &#8211; the <strong>Common Clothes Moth <\/strong><strong><em>Tineola bisselliella<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Tineola.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Tineola.jpg\" width=\"594.4\" height=\"471.5573333333333\" 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_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Common Clothes Moth <em>Tineola bisselliella <\/em>(Lep.: Tineidae)<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 I went up Bear Hill today, the centre of the Gypsy Moth infestation, but I didn\u2019t see any in any of its stages. And I saw only one butterfly &#8211; a lone <strong>Western Spring Azure.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Ken Vaughan writes:\u00a0 I went to the Beaver Lake Retriever Ponds today, with high hopes of finding some odes. I did. I believe the first photo is a male <strong>Pacific Forktail<\/strong>, and the second is a female, although I&#8217;m less sure of it than the first photo.\u00a0 [Thanks to Rob Cannings, who confirms that this is indeed a teneral female Pacific Forktail.]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"damsel male.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/damsel-male.jpg\" width=\"594.4\" height=\"331.5759882869692\" 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_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Pacific Forktail <em>Ischnura cervula <\/em>(Odo.: Coenagrionidae)\u00a0 Ken Vaughan<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"damsel female.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/damsel-female.jpg\" width=\"594.4\" height=\"426.6347663551402\" name=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Pacific Forktail\u00a0 <em>Ischnura cervula <\/em> (Odo.: Coenagrionidae)\u00a0 Ken Vaughan<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Val George writes:\u00a0 On Thursday, May 4, I was in Tofino.\u00a0 The 22 \u00baC weather produced for me the first significant display of butterflies I&#8217;ve\u00a0seen\u00a0this year:\u00a0 about a dozen <strong>Western Brown Elfins<\/strong> (photo),\u00a0 2 <strong>Western Pine Elfins<\/strong> (photo), a <strong>Mourning Cloak<\/strong>, and 3 <strong>Cabbage Whites<\/strong>.\u00a0 On the way home I photographed a <strong>White-ribboned Carpet<\/strong> <strong>Moth <\/strong><strong><em>Mesoleuca gratulata<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0at Somenos Marsh in Duncan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Western Brown Elfin 10.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Western-Brown-Elfin-10.jpg\" width=\"594.4\" height=\"400.7246666666666\" 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=\"\" \/>Western Brown Elfin <em>Incisalia iroides <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae) Val George<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Western Pine Elfin 3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Western-Pine-Elfin-3.jpg\" width=\"594.4\" height=\"395.7713333333333\" name=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Western Pine Elfin (Lep.: <em>Incisalia eryphon<\/em>) Val George<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"White-ribboned Carpet Moth 2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/White-ribboned-Carpet-Moth-2.jpg\" width=\"594.4\" height=\"525.5486666666666\" 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=\"\" \/><em>Mesoleuca gratulata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Val George<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 May 6 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Reminder:\u00a0 Monthly Butterfly Walk tomorrow.\u00a0 Meet at the top of Mount Tolmie, 1:00 pm. Sunday May 7.\u00a0 All welcome.\u00a0 For details, see the May 4 posting. \u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I have been visited by very few moths at my Saanich apartment this year, and I have been feeling neglected.\u00a0 [&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-4068","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\/4068","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=4068"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4105,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068\/revisions\/4105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}