{"id":4493,"date":"2017-06-23T19:53:08","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T02:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4493"},"modified":"2017-06-23T19:57:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T02:57:14","slug":"june-23-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4493","title":{"rendered":"June 23"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:  I just discovered that the June 18 – 22 postings all had the wrong dates; they were all advanced by one day.  I have now corrected these.<\/p>\n

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   Jochen Moehr writes from Metchosin:  My confidence in our new place being blessed with biodiversity continues to increase.  This morning, driving up there around 8:30 a.m., I encountered four different Papilio<\/em><\/strong> <\/em>individuals while driving along Lindholm Road.  I always see at least one or two.  We also always have mud puddling Papilio<\/em><\/strong>s on the newly seeded slope, which we are irrigating.  Today, finally, I was able to get a picture of one of them, which I attach.  <\/p>\n

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

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   Rosemary Jorna writes:  Things come in pairs at Jordan River. We were on the beach there last night (June 21) watching the sun go down and saluting it with friends and wine. When I went to wash the glasses this morning I found two young slugs <\/strong>had come home with us, each sleeping it off in a separate wine glass. They now reside on our property as I did not realize we would be back in Jordan River today.   Jeremy Tatum writes:  I am fairly ignorant about slugs, but to me this one looks rather like the introduced European Lehmannia valentiana<\/em><\/strong>.   Hint for slug and snail photographers:  It is best if you can do exactly what Rosemary has done – i.e. photograph the animal from the right hand side so that we can see the pneumostome, which I think is always on the right.  The exact position of the pneumostome on the mantle helps enormously with the identification.  If you are not sure what the pneumostome is, have a guess, and you’ll almost certainly be right!<\/p>\n

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Lehmannia valentina <\/em>(Pul.: Limacidae)  Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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   Aziza Cooper sends a photograph of a bee on a daisy at Goldstream Park, June 21. Trouble is, we have so many insects here that it is not always possible to identify every one accurately even from a good photograph. This one is probably either a halictid or an andrenid, and it may be safest to leave it at that.<\/p>\n

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Bee – not sure which one!  (Hymenoptera)  Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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   Peter Boon writes:  I took a stroll around the Nanaimo River estuary today.  It was quite windy but I found my first-of-year Purplish Copper<\/strong>. I then went out to the roadside verges of Nanaimo River Road. The Dogbane was in flower but butterflies were few and far between. In a couple of hours there I found at least 3 Pale Tiger Swallowtails, 2 Western Tiger Swallowtails, 1 Cedar Hairstreak, <\/strong>1 first-of-year Lorquin’s Admiral, 1 White (probably Margined) <\/strong> and <\/strong>1 first-of-year Clodius Parnassian.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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   <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:  I saw my first-of-year Lorquin’s Admirals <\/strong>today – about three of them near the Mount Tolmie Reservoir at 4:30 pm.<\/p>\n

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   More pics in the queue – awaiting identification.<\/p>\n

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2017 June 23      Jeremy Tatum writes:  I just discovered that the June 18 – 22 postings all had the wrong dates; they were all advanced by one day.  I have now corrected these.      Jochen Moehr writes from Metchosin:  My confidence in our new place being blessed with biodiversity continues to increase.  […]<\/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-4493","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\/4493","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=4493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}