{"id":4111,"date":"2017-05-08T19:29:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T02:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4111"},"modified":"2017-05-09T10:41:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T17:41:37","slug":"may-8-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4111","title":{"rendered":"May 8"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2017 May 8<\/strong><\/p>\n

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May Butterfly Walk<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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\u00a0\u00a0 We had beautiful weather for the second butterfly walk of 2017 . Eleven observers saw three species at Mount Tolmie: two Western Spring Azures<\/strong>, two Cabbage Whites<\/strong>, and a Propertius Duskywing<\/strong> that circled around close enough for everyone to get good looks.<\/p>\n

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Eight people continued on to Munn Road powerlines and the ponds by the Pike Lake substation where we saw five species of butterfly: about 10 Western Spring Azures<\/strong>, four Sara<\/strong> Orangetips<\/strong>, a presumed Painted Lady<\/strong> fly-by, and a Western Brown Elfin<\/strong> perched on salal. We also saw a fresh male Spiny Baskettail<\/strong> Epitheca spinigera<\/em><\/strong> dragonfly, and a pink lady beetle.
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[Jeremy Tatum writes: The beetle was later identified for us by Charlene Wood as a colour variety of Calvia quatuordecimguttata<\/em><\/strong>, known as the Cream-spotted Ladybird.\u00a0 It is very variable in colour, and some varieties (not this one) actually have cream spots!\u00a0 Latin scholars will note that the specific name means 14-spotted – but that there should be two ts in quattuor. However,the rules of taxonomy don’t allow you to change the spelling of a name once it has been conferred on an organism by its original describer, even if he\/she spelled it wrongly.\u00a0 In fact I believe Linnaeus originally spelled it 14-guttata, but numerals are no longer allowed.]<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Five people travelled a bit further to Gordon and Anne-Marie\u2019s property, where Rick Schortinghuis got a glimpse of an unidentified elfin and two commas. We were able to find one of the commas, a Green Comma, <\/strong>Polygonia faunus<\/em><\/strong>, my first of the year.<\/p>\n

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Finally, the three members who returned early to Mount Tolmie saw a Painted Lady <\/strong>near the Jeffery Pine, so that species can safely be included in the total of seven species.<\/p>\n

-Gordon<\/p>\n

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The next seven photographs are from the Butterfly Walk.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Western Brown Elfin Incisalia iroides <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/div>\n

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\"\"Western Brown Elfin Incisalia iroides <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/div>\n

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\"\"Ladybird Beetle\u00a0Calvia quatuordecimguttata<\/em> (Col.: Coccinellidae) Gordon Hart<\/div>\n

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\"\"Spiny Baskettail Epitheca spinigera <\/em>(Odo.: Corduliidae) Gordon Hart<\/div>\n

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\u00a0Female Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo <\/em> (Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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\"\"Propertius Duskywing Erynnis propertius <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/div>\n

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\"\"Painted Lady Vanessa cardui <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae) Aziza Cooper<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Two more Ken Vaughan photographs from Beaver Lake Ponds, May 6.\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks to Sean McCann for help with the identifications.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Mining bee Andrena <\/em>sp. (Hym.: Andrenidae)\u00a0 Ken Vaughan<\/p>\n

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Ichmeumonid wasp (Hym.: Ichneumonidae)\u00a0 Ken Vaughan<\/p>\n

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Rosemary Jorna sends a picture of a J ohnson\u2019s Jumping Spider<\/strong> from her Kemp Lake area garden, May 7.<\/p>\n

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Phidippus johnsoni <\/em>(Ara.: Salticidae) Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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Aziza Cooper photographed the moth below on the deck of the BC Ferry on May 4.<\/p>\n

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

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