{"id":4414,"date":"2017-06-13T16:33:59","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T23:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4414"},"modified":"2017-06-13T16:48:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T23:48:46","slug":"june-13-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4414","title":{"rendered":"June 13"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   <\/strong>Jeremy Gatten writes: I am not sure if Sphinx perelegans<\/em><\/strong> has bigger flight years on occasion, but it’s interesting seeing multiple reports locally.  I have been wanting to see one of these for a while now and I know their host plant is Orange Honeysuckle.  I have been looking at patches of Orange Honeysuckle and thinking "I should go out at night and check this spot".  Of course I never do, but now I don’t need to!  On my wall this morning was an impressive Elegant Sphinx waiting for me!<\/p>\n

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Sphinx perelegans <\/em>(Lep.: Sphingidae)  Jeremy Gatten<\/p>\n

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   Occasionally it’s a bit difficult to be sure whether a tiger swallowtail is a Pale or a Western, but there is no doubt about this one photographed by Aziza Cooper on Mock Orange in Brentwood Bay, June 12. It is a no-questions Pale Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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

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   Ron Flower writes:  We went out to Eddy’s again today to try and get both sexes of Field Crescent<\/strong>, of which there were many to choose from.  My camera was set to a wrong focal point.  Too bad – so no pics today!  What was good, though, is that we checked out a field behind the Zanzibar Restaurant<\/span> on the corner of West Saanich and Stelly’s Cross Road and immediately found more Field Crescents<\/strong>. All the same flowers also were there. <\/p>\n

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2017 June 13      Jeremy Gatten writes: I am not sure if Sphinx perelegans has bigger flight years on occasion, but it’s interesting seeing multiple reports locally.  I have been wanting to see one of these for a while now and I know their host plant is Orange Honeysuckle.  I have been looking at […]<\/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-4414","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\/4414","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=4414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}