{"id":4787,"date":"2017-08-14T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T16:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4787"},"modified":"2017-08-14T09:07:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T16:07:15","slug":"august-14-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4787","title":{"rendered":"August 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2017 August 14 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong><strong><em>Colias <\/em><\/strong><strong>alert continues.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Ron Flower writes:&nbsp; Yesterday, Sunday 13th August, at noon we went to the reservoir at Garcias Farm (also called McIntyre Reservoir).&nbsp; Next to the pond there is a flower section next to the tractor tract and the cabbage patch.&nbsp; We saw   a <strong>Mourning Cloak Grasshopper<\/strong>.&nbsp; We saw <strong>three Painted Ladies<\/strong>, a  <strong>Purplish Copper<\/strong> and best of all <strong>three <\/strong><strong>Orange<\/strong><strong> Sulphurs<\/strong>.&nbsp; And many  <strong>Cabbage Whites<\/strong>.&nbsp; Wear long pants as it is very thorny in there.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I saw an <strong>Orange Sulphur <\/strong>at Puckle Road again late on the Sunday afternoon &#8211; as well as in the morning as mentioned in yesterday&#8217;s postings.&nbsp; Also a  <strong>Large Heath <\/strong>there, and an <strong><em>Autographa californica <\/em>  <\/strong>moth.&nbsp; Ron&#8217;s photograph shows that his sulphur is indeed a male <strong>  Orange <\/strong><strong>Sulphur<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><strong>&nbsp; <\/strong>You can just see some of the upper forewing orange through the wings, and the black forewing border is broader than it usually is on the similar Clouded Sulphur.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"821\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"Dissosteira carolina.JPG\" height=\"407.7633333333333\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Dissosteira-carolina.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mourning Cloak Grasshopper <em>Dissosteira <\/em><em>carolina<\/em><em>  <\/em>(Orth.: Acrididae) Ron Flower<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"804\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"Painted Lady.JPG\" height=\"399.32\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Painted-Lady.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Painted Lady <em>Vanessa cardui <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)&nbsp; Ron Flower<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"904\" originalwidth=\"1188\" name=\"\" title=\"Purplish Copper.JPG\" height=\"453.52188552188557\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Purplish-Copper.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Male Purplish Copper <em>Lycaena helloides <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae) Ron Flower<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"749\" originalwidth=\"1056\" name=\"\" title=\"Orange Sulphur.JPG\" height=\"422.7310606060606\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Orange-Sulphur.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Male Orange Sulphur <em>Colias eurytheme <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)&nbsp; 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