{"id":4727,"date":"2017-08-06T19:45:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T02:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4727"},"modified":"2017-08-06T19:47:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T02:47:40","slug":"august-6-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4727","title":{"rendered":"August 6"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2017 August 6, evening<\/strong><\/p>\n

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   Samantha Hatfield sends photographs of a Pine White<\/strong> from the E&N bike trail in View Royal, and a Lorquin’s Admiral<\/strong> in the North Jubilee neighbourhood.   The usual orange wingtip in the latter is replaced, for some unknown reason, with white.<\/p>\n

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Male Pine White Neophasia menapia <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)  Samantha Hatfield<\/p>\n

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Lorquin’s Admiral Limenitis lorquini <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Samantha Hatfield<\/p>\n

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   Bill Katz sends photographs of two geometrid moths from Goldstream Park.  Thanks to Libby Avis for identifying the first of these for us.<\/p>\n

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Perizoma costiguttata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Bill Katz<\/p>\n

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Plemyria georgii <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) Bill Katz<\/p>\n

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   Aziza Cooper went to Boas Road in the Spectacle Lake area on August 5 and reported:<\/p>\n

1 Pine White<\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Lorquin’s Admiral<\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Grey Hairstreak<\/strong><\/p>\n

9 <\/strong>Woodland<\/strong> Skippers<\/strong><\/p>\n

She sends two photographs.  Grey Hairstreaks seem to like nectaring at Pearly Everlasting, which is also the larval foodplant.<\/p>\n

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Grey Hairstreak Strymon melinus <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae) Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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   Annie Pang sends some photographs of a fearful robber fly<\/strong> from Gorge Park, August 1.  Thanks to Rob Cannings for confirming her identification as Laphria fernaldi<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Male robber fly Laphria fernaldi <\/em>(Dip.: Asilidae)  Annie Pang<\/p>\n

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Male robber fly Laphria fernaldi <\/em>(Dip.: Asilidae)  Annie Pang<\/p>\n

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Male robber fly Laphria fernaldi <\/em>(Dip.: Asilidae)  Annie Pang<\/p>\n

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Male robber fly Laphria fernaldi <\/em>(Dip.: Asilidae)  Annie Pang<\/p>\n

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More to come tomorrow….<\/p>\n

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2017 August 6, evening      Samantha Hatfield sends photographs of a Pine White from the E&N bike trail in View Royal, and a Lorquin’s Admiral in the North Jubilee neighbourhood.   The usual orange wingtip in the latter is replaced, for some unknown reason, with white.   Male Pine White Neophasia menapia (Lep.: Pieridae)  Samantha […]<\/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-4727","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\/4727","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=4727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}