{"id":5913,"date":"2018-04-26T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T02:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5913"},"modified":"2018-04-27T09:20:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T16:20:56","slug":"april-2-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5913","title":{"rendered":"April 26"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Invert Alert!<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Silvery Blues!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeff Gaskin writes: Yesterday, April 25, there were 2 Silvery Blues<\/strong> around the lupines, though the plants were still not in flower on the Galloping Goose trail by the Colwood exit.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Jeff continues: Today, April 26, there were 2 Satyr Commas<\/strong> on the Lochside trail between Lohbrunner Road. and the Don Mann business or at the trail that connects to Mount Douglas Cross Road.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Lots of Western Spring Azures <\/strong>and Sara Orangetips <\/strong>at Munn Road today.\u00a0 Also one Green Comma<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Kirsten Mills writes: Jeff Gaskin and I had a Mourning Cloak<\/strong> at the Swan Lake nature house at 5:30 tonight (April 26) . Here’s a photo.<\/p>\n

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Mourning Cloak\u00a0 Nymphalis antiopa<\/em>\u00a0 <\/em> (Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Val George writes: Yesterday’s (April 25) warm weather finally brought out some butterflies so I took the opportunity to do the official April count for my area, Mount Douglas and the surrounding areas.\u00a0 My tally was: 10 Cabbage Whites, 5 Sara Orangetips, 2 Propertius Duskywings.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Propertius Duskywing Erynnis propertius<\/em>\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Aziza Cooper writes: Yesterday, April 25, this moth landed at my feet in Oak Haven Park, Brentwood Bay.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 This is Epirrhoe plebeculata<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong> This is a day-flying moth, many of which may be seen flying at this time of year.\u00a0 If you see one, please watch it carefully to see if it is laying eggs.\u00a0 If it does, I\u2019d love to have then for rearing.\u00a0 I have been trying to find the caterpillars of this moth for a very long time.<\/p>\n

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Epirrhoe plebeculata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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2018 April 26 Invert Alert!\u00a0\u00a0 Silvery Blues! \u00a0\u00a0 Jeff Gaskin writes: Yesterday, April 25, there were 2 Silvery Blues around the lupines, though the plants were still not in flower on the Galloping Goose trail by the Colwood exit. \u00a0\u00a0 Jeff continues: Today, April 26, there were 2 Satyr Commas on the Lochside trail between […]<\/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-5913","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\/5913","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=5913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5917,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5913\/revisions\/5917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}