{"id":4509,"date":"2017-06-25T16:41:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-25T23:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4509"},"modified":"2017-06-29T19:54:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T02:54:46","slug":"june-25-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4509","title":{"rendered":"June 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2017 June 25<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>Reminder:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Please send photographs as <strong>attachments <\/strong>in <strong>.jpg<\/strong> format.\u00a0 It makes life so very much easier for me.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Peter Boon photographed an interesting moth in the Nanaimo River estuary on June 23.\u00a0 \u00a0Not only could I not identify it, but it turns out that it was one that I hadn\u2019t even heard of!\u00a0 Libby Avis identified it for us as <strong><em>Leucania dia <\/em><\/strong>&#8211; and she reports that she had also found one a few days ago in Port Alberni.\u00a0 This moth was until recently regarded as a subspecies of another species of wainscot moth; it was named a full species only a few years ago, in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Leucania dia.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Leucania-dia.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"447.49666666666667\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><em>Leucania dia <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Peter Boon<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Peter Boon writes:\u00a0 During a hike up Mount Becher today I found 4-5 <strong> commas<\/strong> patrolling the mid-lower slope trails.\u00a0 One seemed to like perching on my hat, so I took it off to snap a photo or two. Lower down on the old ski runs I found a fresh <strong>Western Meadow Fritillary. <\/strong>Also seen on the lower slopes was a<strong> Pale Tiger Swallowtail.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Butterfly enthusiasts are asked to look carefully at Peter\u2019s comma photographs and to let us know which species you think it is.\u00a0 Please do let us know what you think, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and why<\/span>. [Added later:\u00a0 Problem solved.\u00a0 See June 27 entry.]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"comma1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/comma1.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"486.2366666666666\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Comma <em>Polygonia <\/em>sp. (Lep.:\u00a0 Nymphalidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Peter Boon<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"comma2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/comma2.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"488.2233333333333\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Comma <em>Polygonia <\/em>sp. (Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Peter Boon<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"W meadow frit und.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/W-meadow-frit-und.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"446.00666666666666\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Western Meadow Fritillary <em>Boloria epithore <\/em> (Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Peter Boon<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image010.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"W meadow frit upp.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/W-meadow-frit-upp.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"398.8233333333333\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Western Meadow Fritillary <em>Boloria epithore <\/em> (Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Peter Boon<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen Moehr writes:\u00a0 I continue to enjoy the drive up to our new Metchosin property.\u00a0 I always encounter up to four <strong><em>Papilio<\/em><\/strong>s and some <strong><em>Pieris rapae<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Today I saw my first <strong>Lorquin&#8217;s Admiral<\/strong> of the year.\u00a0 And I was able to take pictures of this <strong><em>Papilio eurymedon.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Pale Tiger.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pale-Tiger.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"334.75333333333333\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image012.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Pale Tiger Swallowtail <em>Papilio eurymedon <\/em>(Lep.: Papilionidae)\u00a0 Jochen Moehr.<\/div>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 June 25 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Reminder:\u00a0 Please send photographs as attachments in .jpg format.\u00a0 It makes life so very much easier for me.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum. \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Peter Boon photographed an interesting moth in the Nanaimo River estuary on June 23.\u00a0 \u00a0Not only could I not identify it, but it turns out that [&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-4509","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\/4509","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=4509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4556,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4509\/revisions\/4556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}