{"id":4179,"date":"2017-05-19T19:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T02:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4179"},"modified":"2017-05-20T09:16:07","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T16:16:07","slug":"may-19-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4179","title":{"rendered":"May 19"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2017 May 19<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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Hello Butterfly Counters,<\/p>\n

The May count runs nine days from the third Saturday, May 20, to the fourth Sunday, May 28. 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

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. The weather is finally looking much better this month, so we can hope for a good count.<\/p>\n

In addition to the counts, a monthly butterfly walk is held on the first Sunday of each month – the next walk will be on June 4th. We start at the summit of Mount Tolmie at 1pm, and decide where to go from there. I will send out another reminder that week.<\/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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Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0 Today, May 19, I saw my first Cedar Hairstreak<\/strong> of the year at the corner of Obed Avenue. and Wascana Street.\u00a0 This is in the Gorge community.<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 One Painted Lady <\/strong>near the Mount Tolmie Jeffery Pine at 4:00 pm today, but nothing on the reservoir.\u00a0 Warm and sunny afternoon – but is it too late for that now?<\/p>\n

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Dar Churcher sends a photograph of a Zebra Spider <\/strong>with a hapless mayfly, <\/strong>Colwood, April 19.\u00a0 And Mik Yip sends a photograph of a caddisfly <\/strong>from Nanoose Bay, May 17. We have had only a very few representatives from these Orders (Ephemeroptera, Trichoptera) so far on this site.<\/p>\n

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Salticus scenicus <\/em>(Ara.: Salticidae) and Callibaetis ferrugineus <\/em>(Eph.: Baetidae)<\/p>\n

Dar Churcher<\/p>\n

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\"\"Caddisfly Limnephilus fagus <\/em>(Tri.: Limnephilidae) Mike Yip<\/div>\n

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Val George sends a photograph of his first (and Invert Alert’s) Ringlet (Large Heath)<\/strong> of the season, Island View Beach, May 19.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Coenonympha tullia <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae – Satyrinae)\u00a0 Val George<\/div>\n

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2017 May 19 \u00a0 From Gordon Hart \u00a0 Hello Butterfly Counters, The May count runs nine days from the third Saturday, May 20, to the fourth Sunday, May 28. 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 […]<\/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-4179","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\/4179","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=4179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4183,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions\/4183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}