{"id":4549,"date":"2017-06-29T19:47:15","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T02:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4549"},"modified":"2017-06-29T20:06:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T03:06:34","slug":"june-29-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4549","title":{"rendered":"June 29"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Ron Flower writes:\u00a0 We were out on West Saanich Road today (June 28) and did some more hunting for Field Crescents.<\/strong>\u00a0 We found another population in a field close to Woodwind Farm. There is a small native graveyard on the left side of the road heading north on West Saanich Road before Woodwind. The field to the left of the graveyard holds the crescents. I don\u2019t know the ethics of reporting this location so I will leave that dilemma up to you, but it\u2019s good to know that the population seems to be holding its own.<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum replies:\u00a0 I haven\u2019t thought much about the ethics, either, and so I\u2019d welcome any comments from viewers. One danger in reporting sites of rare butterflies is that it brings them to the attention of butterfly collectors – we don\u2019t want to see any butterfly nets being wielded.\u00a0 Or if the site is on private property, we must respect property rights. The graveyard in question is presumably not only First Nations property, but is sacred to them, and permission should be sought.<\/p>\n

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Although the Field Crescent is regarded now as locally rare, this was not always so.\u00a0 It was a not uncommon butterfly fifty years ago.\u00a0 They were even in Uplands Park.<\/p>\n

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Val George writes:\u00a0 This afternoon, June 28, I walked the railway track at Cowichan Station to look for Margined Whites <\/strong>Pieris marginalis<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0 I counted 7 or 8.\u00a0 Other butterflies there:\u00a0 At least a dozen Western Tiger Swallowtails,<\/strong> 1 Pale Tiger Swallowtail, 3 Lorquin’s Admirals, 1 Red Admiral, 2 Cabbage Whites.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Margined White Pieris marginalis <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/em>Margined White Pieris marginalis <\/em> (Lep.: Pieridae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Exciting!\u00a0\u00a0 I think the first one is resting on Dame\u2019s Rocket – one of the larval foodplants.\u00a0 The second is nectaring at Herb Robert – something they apparently like to do.\u00a0 These are both completely immaculate.\u00a0 The ones I saw earlier this year had the underside veins strongly accentuated with grey.\u00a0 I believe there are two generations per year (bivoltine), and that the difference is a generational difference.\u00a0 Future observations (and photographs of this quality!) will tell.<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Huge numbers of Essex Skippers<\/strong> at Panama Flats this afternoon.\u00a0 This evening at Mount Tolmie, the usual bunch – several Painted Ladies, Lorquin\u2019s <\/strong>and Red Admirals, Western Tiger Swallowtails, <\/strong>and a West Coast Lady.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Nick Doe sends a photograph of a male Mylitta Crescent<\/strong> taken on Gabriola Island a few days ago. He writes that they’re quite common in the woods he frequents and they often pose nicely for the camera.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 Mylitta Crescent Phyciodes mylitta <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Nick Doe<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna writes: This Golden Bupestrid Beetle <\/strong>Bupestris aurulenta <\/em><\/strong>joined us on the neighbours\u2019 deck in the Kemp Lake area June \u00a029 2017. It even let me get in for a close up.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Golden Bupestrid Bupestris aurulenta <\/em>(Col.: Bupestridae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/div>\n

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\"\"Golden Bupestrid Bupestris aurulenta <\/em>(Col.: Bupestridae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Rosemary also sends a photograph of a caterpillar from nearby.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Silver-spotted Tiger Moth Lophocampa argentata <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiidae)<\/div>\n

Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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2017 June 29 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Ron Flower writes:\u00a0 We were out on West Saanich Road today (June 28) and did some more hunting for Field Crescents.\u00a0 We found another population in a field close to Woodwind Farm. There is a small native graveyard on the left side of the road heading north on West Saanich […]<\/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-4549","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\/4549","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=4549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4557,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4549\/revisions\/4557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}