{"id":5931,"date":"2018-04-28T15:04:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T22:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5931"},"modified":"2018-10-01T10:36:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T17:36:32","slug":"april-28-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5931","title":{"rendered":"April 28"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0<\/strong>2018 April 28<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Yesterday morning (April 27) I saw a few Silvery Blues <\/strong>at the Colwood turn-off.\u00a0\u00a0 They were all males.\u00a0\u00a0 It often happens, in butterflies and in birds, that the males put in an appearance before the females.\u00a0\u00a0 As Jeff pointed out in the April 26 posting, the lupines are not yet in flower \u2013 indeed there was no sign even of buds.\u00a0 One of the potential effects of climate change is that it puts the phenology of species that depend upon each other out of kilter.\u00a0 For example, if Silvery Blues were to start regularly emerging early in the season, they may not find lupine buds to lay their eggs on.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Barb McGrenere writes:\u00a0 On Friday morning, Mike saw one Western Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong> flying alongside the trestle at Blenkinsop Lake<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Scott Gilmore photographed this jumping spider in Lantzville on April 19. Thanks to Catherine Scott and Sean McCann\u00a0 for identifying it \u2013 they believe it is probably Pelegrina aeneola.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Pelegrina aeneola <\/em>(Ara.: Salticidae)\u00a0 Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n

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Pelegrina aeneola <\/em>(Ara.: Salticidae)\u00a0 Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n

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Pelegrina aeneola <\/em>(Ara.: Salticidae)\u00a0 Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n

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Pelegrina aeneola <\/em>(Ara.: Salticidae)\u00a0 Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 Here\u2019s a batch of interesting insects from Lantzville, from Scott Gilmore, April 27.<\/p>\n

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Midge (Dip.: Chironomidae)\u00a0 Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n

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Midge (Dip.: Chironomidae)\u00a0 Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n

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Sap beetle, Glischrochilus siepmanni<\/em>\u00a0 <\/em> (Col.: Nitidulidae)\u00a0 Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n

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Marsh beetle, Herthania concinna<\/em>\u00a0 <\/em> (Col.: Scirtidae)\u00a0 Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n

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Bark louse Hyalosocus<\/em> sp.\u00a0 (Psocoptera)\u00a0 Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n

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Bark louse Hyalosocus<\/em> sp.\u00a0 (Psocoptera)\u00a0 Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Ken Vaughan writes:\u00a0 I was out to the Beaver Lake Retriever Ponds this morning, 27 April, poking around. Not much action to speak of yet. But there were a few Pacific Forktails <\/strong>about, away from the pond itself. Here’s a male.<\/p>\n

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Pacific Forktail Ischnura cervula <\/em>(Odo.:\u00a0 Coenagrionidae<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0\u00a0 Here is an Aseptis adnixa<\/em><\/strong> reared from a caterpillar found on Oemleria cerasiformis<\/em> in the Blenkinsop Valley and released there at midnight last night.<\/p>\n

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Aseptis adnixa <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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Steven Roias writes: I don’t get too many noctuids around my house in\u00a0Saanich but tonight (April 27)\u00a0was an exception!\u00a0 Both Egira perlubens<\/em><\/strong> and E. rubrica<\/em><\/strong> showed nicely.<\/p>\n

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Egira perlubens <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Steven Roias<\/p>\n

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Egira rubrica <\/em>\u00a0<\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Steven Roias<\/p>\n

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\u00a02018 April 28 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Yesterday morning (April 27) I saw a few Silvery Blues at the Colwood turn-off.\u00a0\u00a0 They were all males.\u00a0\u00a0 It often happens, in butterflies and in birds, that the males put in an appearance before the females.\u00a0\u00a0 As Jeff pointed out in the April 26 posting, the lupines […]<\/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-5931","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\/5931","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=5931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7186,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5931\/revisions\/7186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}