{"id":4190,"date":"2017-05-21T18:54:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T01:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4190"},"modified":"2017-05-21T18:57:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T01:57:40","slug":"may-21-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4190","title":{"rendered":"May 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2017 May 21<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Ken Vaughan photographed a <strong>Swift Forktail<\/strong> at Beaver Lake Pond yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"768\" originalwidth=\"1181\" name=\"\" title=\"Swift Forktail.jpg\" height=\"386.5361558001693\" width=\"594.4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Swift-Forktail.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Swift Forktail <em>Ischnura erratica <\/em>(Odo.:&nbsp; Coenagrionidae)&nbsp; Ken Vaughan<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; Today Bill Savale and I walked along the railway line north of Cowichan Station.&nbsp; There were a few  <strong>Margined Whites <\/strong><em>Pieris marginalis <\/em><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>there, nectaring, as they often do, on Herb Robert.&nbsp; There was a lot of  <em>Nasturtium<\/em> in the adjacent ditch, and also a lot of <em>Hesperis <\/em>at the side of the ditch.&nbsp; I think  <em>Nasturtium<\/em> is probably the favoured larval foodplant, though in the past I have found and successfully reared them on  <em>Hesperis<\/em>.&nbsp; The butterflies we looked at were completely immaculate white above.&nbsp; They are often completely white underneath, too, but, in the one we had a good look at, the veins on the underside were boldly marked in grey, looking very like the European   Green-veined White <em>Pieris napi<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp; The immature stages of the two seem to be indistinguishable, and a case could be made for lumping them both under the name  <em>Pieris napi<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; The flight of the Margined White is lighter and more floatier than that of the Cabbage White.&nbsp; Not so light as that of the Pine White, but something in between.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; There were also a few <strong>Western Spring Azures <\/strong>there, and I saw my<strong>  <\/strong>first <strong>Satyr Comma<\/strong> of the year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 May 21 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Ken Vaughan photographed a Swift Forktail at Beaver Lake Pond yesterday. &nbsp; Swift Forktail Ischnura erratica (Odo.:&nbsp; Coenagrionidae)&nbsp; Ken Vaughan &nbsp; &nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; Today Bill Savale and I walked along the railway line north of Cowichan Station.&nbsp; There were a few Margined Whites Pieris marginalis &nbsp;there, nectaring, as [&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-4190","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\/4190","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=4190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}