{"id":4502,"date":"2017-06-24T16:20:32","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T23:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4502"},"modified":"2017-06-24T16:28:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T23:28:49","slug":"june-24-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4502","title":{"rendered":"June 24"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   <\/strong>Aziza Cooper writes:  Yesterday, June 23, about 4 pm, I went to Government House on Rockland Street. The usual hotspot is a lawn in an opening in the Douglas firs due east of the big main house.  I was enthralled to see a constant flurry of Western Tiger<\/strong> Swallowtails<\/strong> chasing around the clearing with up to six dancing together up to the treetops. I estimated 15 individuals circulating around the area. I watched them for 20 minutes or more admiring their constant motion and numbers.<\/p>\n

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   Also there were one each of Pale Tiger Swallowtail, Cabbage White, Red Admiral <\/strong>and Lorquin’s Admiral. <\/strong> <\/strong>At the herb garden west of the big house, there was an Anise Swallowtail <\/strong>and a Lorquin’s Admiral<\/strong>, and six other Cabbage White<\/strong> butterflies around the grounds.<\/p>\n

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   The swallowtail show is really worth a visit! <\/p>\n

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   Jeremy Tatum writes:  The tiger swallowtails were putting on a good show, too, on Mount Tolmie last night.  I’m sure the scientists will differ, but I got the strong impression that they were cavorting around and chasing each other for the pure joy of it.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Swallowtails Papilio <\/em>(Lep.: Papilionidae) Aziza Cooper<\/div>\n

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Anise Swallowtail Papilio zelicaon <\/em>(Lep.: Papilionidae) Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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   Jeremy Tatum writes: The moth below emerged today from a cocoon formed by a caterpillar found last year on Douglas Fir in East Sooke Park.<\/p>\n

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 Panthea virginarius <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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2016 June 24      Aziza Cooper writes:  Yesterday, June 23, about 4 pm, I went to Government House on Rockland Street. The usual hotspot is a lawn in an opening in the Douglas firs due east of the big main house.  I was enthralled to see a constant flurry of Western Tiger Swallowtails chasing around […]<\/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-4502","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\/4502","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=4502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}