{"id":4248,"date":"2017-05-26T20:32:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T03:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4248"},"modified":"2017-05-27T08:16:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T15:16:18","slug":"may-26-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4248","title":{"rendered":"May 26"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>The present unaccustomed warm and sunny weather is producing lots of fine photos of invertebrates.<\/p>\n

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Here is another photo of a young Dot-tailed Whiteface<\/strong> by Gordon Hart.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Dot-tailed Whiteface Leucorrhinia intacta <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae) Gordon Hart<\/div>\n

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Mike Yip writes from Nanoose Bay:\u00a0 Butterfly activity was definitely up yesterday (May 25). I was working in the garden when a dark brown\u00a0medium-small butterfly fluttered in and landed on a rhubarb leaf. I was close enough to see that it was a Propertius Duskywing.<\/strong> Of course, it was gone by the time I got my camera, but it was replaced by\u00a0a light brown butterfly that landed on a raspberry leaf. It turned out to be a Cedar Hairstreak<\/strong> which allowed one quick photo before darting away. A few minutes later a one-tailed Pale Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong> flew in and started nectaring on the lilacs. Meanwhile Cabbage Whites<\/strong> and Western Spring Azures<\/strong> were common. With all that activity I decided to check Cross Road, which was only 2 km away. As expected the Western Tailed Blues<\/strong> and Western Brown Elfins<\/strong> were at the beginning of the trail and the lone Western Pine Elfin<\/strong> was on the same fern waiting for a mate. The only new butterflies were two first-of-year Grey Hairstreaks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Mike\u2019s tiger swallowtail below is of interest.\u00a0 It looks rather too yellow and not white enough for a Pale Tiger Swallowtail, but the width of the black bands and the orange crescent near the tail point to a Pale Tiger rather than to a Western Tiger.\u00a0 While most of our tiger swallowtails are relatively easily told apart, occasionally we get one that can be puzzling.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to label this one Pale!<\/p>\n

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\"\"Pale Tiger Swallowtail Papilio eurymedon <\/em>(Lep.: Papilionidae) Mike Yip<\/div>\n

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\"\"Western Tailed Blue Everes amyntula <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae) Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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Grey Hairstreak Strymon melinus <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae) Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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Cedar Hairstreak Mitoura rosneri <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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Western Brown Elfin Incisalia iroides <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Thank you, Sean McCann for identifying the cuckoo bee<\/strong> below.<\/p>\n

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Cuckoo bee Nomada <\/em>sp.(Hym.: Apidae – Nomadinae)\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Daniel D\u00f6nnecke writes: While on Hornby Island this last weekend I noticed that there were butterflies out which frequently distracted me from bird watching. There was a swallowtail<\/strong>, many duskywings,<\/strong> an anglewing (comma)<\/strong> and this Western Pine Elfin.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Also while mowing my lawn this afternoon I flushed a small butterfly from a young Sitka Spruce. It landed again and I got a picture of it.\u00a0 [Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 This one is a little past its sell-by date.\u00a0 I am torn between Western Brown Elfin<\/strong> and Cedar<\/strong> Hairstreak<\/strong>.\u00a0 I would be interested in opinions (with reasons!)]<\/p>\n

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\"\"Western Pine Elfin Incisalia eryphon <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae) Daniel D\u00f6nnecke<\/div>\n

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Western Brown Elfin?\u00a0 Cedar Hairstreak?\u00a0 Opinions, anyone?<\/p>\n

Daniel D\u00f6nnecke<\/p>\n

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Two more from Daniel.\u00a0\u00a0 Commas are notoriously difficult to identify from upperside alone, but Jeremy Tatum thinks this one is most likely a Green Comma.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Opinions welcome.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Probably Green Comma Polygonia faunus <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Daniel D\u00f6nnecke<\/p>\n

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Propertius Duskywing Erynnis propertius <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae) Daniel D\u00f6nnecke<\/p>\n

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Some spider photographs by Dar Churcher from Colwood.\u00a0\u00a0 Not sure what the spiderlings are on the first photograph.\u00a0 They are most likely Araneus diadematus<\/em><\/strong>, but they could be another species.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Probably Araneus diadematus <\/em>(Ara.: Araneidae) Dar Churcher<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 The following were identified by Sean McCann.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Salticus scenicus <\/em>(Ara.: Salticidae)\u00a0 Dar Churcher<\/div>\n

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Platycryptus californicus <\/em>(Ara.: Salticidae)<\/p>\n

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\"\"Platycryptus californicus <\/em>(Ara.: Salticidae) Dar Churcher<\/div>\n

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Samantha Hatfield sends a photograph of an Anise Swallowtail <\/strong> in the act of ovipositing on some Fennel at Shelbourne and Haultain Streets.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Anise Swallowtail Papilio zelicaon <\/em>(Lep.: Papilionidae)<\/div>\n

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Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 The micro below is probably the same species as the micro shown on May 16.\u00a0 The caterpillars looked very similar, except that the May 16 one was found and reared on Snowberry, and today\u2019s was found and reared on Stinging Nettle.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Olethreutes glaciana <\/em>(Lep.: Tortricidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Val George writes:\u00a0 Here is a photo of a Four-spotted Skimmer<\/strong> Libellula<\/strong><\/em> quadrimaculata<\/strong><\/em> taken yesterday, May 25, at the Pike Lake Substation off Munn Road.\u00a0 Also, today, May 26, I saw my first meadowhawk of the season,\u00a0 a Cardinal Meadowhawk<\/strong> Sympetrum<\/strong><\/em> illotum<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0on Thetis Island whilst on a trip with the Cowichan Valley Naturalists.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Four-spotted Skimmer Libellula quadrimaculata <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Val George<\/div>\n

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2017 May 26 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 The present unaccustomed warm and sunny weather is producing lots of fine photos of invertebrates.   Here is another photo of a young Dot-tailed Whiteface by Gordon Hart.   Dot-tailed Whiteface Leucorrhinia intacta (Odo.: Libellulidae) Gordon Hart   Mike Yip writes from Nanoose Bay:\u00a0 Butterfly activity was definitely up yesterday […]<\/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-4248","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\/4248","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=4248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4269,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4248\/revisions\/4269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}