{"id":4487,"date":"2017-06-23T09:25:36","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T16:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4487"},"modified":"2017-06-23T09:26:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T16:26:50","slug":"june-22-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4487","title":{"rendered":"June 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2017 June 22<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Val George sends a photograph of a <strong>Purplish Copper  <\/strong>from Island View Beach, June 22.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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=\"837\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"Purplish Copper 15.jpg\" height=\"415.71\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Purplish-Copper-15-1.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Purplish Copper <em>Lycaena helloides <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)&nbsp; Val George<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Nathan Fisk reports <strong>5 Lorquin&#8217;s Admirals <\/strong>and <strong>4 swallowtails<\/strong> at the first parking lot at Saxe Point Park.&nbsp; He sends a photograph of one of the admirals.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"1055\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"Lorquin.jpg\" height=\"523.9833333333333\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Lorquin-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Lorquin&#8217;s Admiral <em>Limenitis lorquini <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)&nbsp; Nathan Fisk<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Louis Beaudoin photographed the spectacular caterpillar below at Lantzville a few days ago.&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; At first I had no idea what it was, but I am now fully convinced that it is an unusual colour variety of  <strong><em>Hyles lineata<\/em><\/strong><strong>, the White-lined Hawkmoth<\/strong>.&nbsp; More typical colours are seen on the postings for 2014 August 29 and September 1, though Barb McGrenere photographed one more like this on the 2015 June 24 posting.&nbsp;&nbsp; Thanks   to Louis, and to Scott Gilmore for passing the photograph on to us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"471\" originalwidth=\"960\" name=\"\" title=\"sphingid1.JPG\" height=\"292.4125\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sphingid1-1.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">White-lined Hawkmoth <em>Hyles lineata <\/em>(Lep.: Sphingidae)&nbsp; Louis Beaudoin<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 June 22 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Val George sends a photograph of a Purplish Copper from Island View Beach, June 22. &nbsp; &nbsp; Purplish Copper Lycaena helloides (Lep.: Lycaenidae)&nbsp; Val George &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Nathan Fisk reports 5 Lorquin&#8217;s Admirals and 4 swallowtails at the first parking lot at Saxe Point Park.&nbsp; He sends a photograph of [&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-4487","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\/4487","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=4487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}