{"id":4738,"date":"2017-08-07T10:03:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T17:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4738"},"modified":"2017-08-07T10:14:34","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T17:14:34","slug":"august-7-morning-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4738","title":{"rendered":"August 7 morning 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2017 August 7 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n

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   <\/strong>Ten butterfly enthusiasts joined the VNHS monthly Butterfly Walk on Sunday August 6.  Although butterfly activity is beginning to die down, we made a specific target for the outing, namely to try to find the Western Branded Skipper <\/strong>at Cordova (Saanichton) Spit.  Success!  We had good looks at three of these, which were “lifers” for several of our group.  Jeff Gaskin and Aziza Cooper kept score of the butterflies we saw, namely:<\/p>\n

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   At Mount Tolmie, before we took off: <\/p>\n

                                  1 Lorquin’s Admiral<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                  <\/strong>2 <\/strong>Woodland<\/strong> Skippers<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

   Cordova Spit:         1 Lorquin’s Admiral<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                  <\/strong>3 Cabbage Whites<\/strong><\/p>\n

              <\/strong>                <\/strong>c25 <\/strong> Woodland<\/strong> Skippers<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                 <\/strong>3 Western Branded Skippers<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                 <\/strong>1 Large Heath (“Ringlet”)<\/strong><\/p>\n

   <\/strong>At Mount Tolmie, when we returned:<\/p>\n

                                 1 Western Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                 <\/strong>1 West Coast Lady<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Also seen at Cordova Spit was the day-flying moth Heliothis phloxiphaga<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Here are some photographs of butterflies and other insects from the trip:<\/p>\n

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West Coast Lady Vanessa annabella <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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Western Branded Skipper Hesperia <\/em>colorado<\/em> <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Western Branded Skipper Hesperia <\/em>colorado<\/em> <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Western Branded Skipper Hesperia <\/em>colorado<\/em> <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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

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

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Western Branded Skipper Hesperia <\/em>colorado<\/em> <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

(plus unidentified fly!)<\/p>\n

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Heliothis phloxiphaga <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae) Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Sand wasp Bembix <\/em>americana<\/em> <\/em> (Hym.: Crabronidae)  Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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Hunting wasp Ammophila <\/em>sp. (Hym.: Sphecidae)  Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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2017 August 7 morning      Ten butterfly enthusiasts joined the VNHS monthly Butterfly Walk on Sunday August 6.  Although butterfly activity is beginning to die down, we made a specific target for the outing, namely to try to find the Western Branded Skipper at Cordova (Saanichton) Spit.  Success!  We had good looks at three […]<\/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-4738","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\/4738","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=4738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}