{"id":5969,"date":"2018-05-02T15:21:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T22:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5969"},"modified":"2018-05-08T08:59:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T15:59:11","slug":"may-2-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5969","title":{"rendered":"May 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2018 May 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Val George found this <strong style=\"font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Silver-spotted Tiger Moth <\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong style=\"font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em style=\"font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Lophocampa argentata<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong> caterpillar at Swan Lake yesterday, May 1.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><img class=\"\" style=\"width: 620px; margin: 5px;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Silver-spotted Tiger Moth 5.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Silver-spotted-Tiger-Moth-5.jpg\" width=\"711.2\" height=\"471.7626666666667\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Silver-spotted Tiger Moth <em>Lophocampa argentata <\/em> (Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Arctiinae) Val George<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Nathan Fisk writes that he had such a lovely visit with two of these gems (<strong>Silvery Blues) <\/strong>at the Colwood turn-off lupine patch. The lupines are maybe about a week from flowering, maybe sooner if the sun continues.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"\" style=\"width: 584px; margin: 5px;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Silvery Blue.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Silvery-Blue.jpg\" width=\"711.2\" height=\"577.2573333333333\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Silvery Blue <em>Glaucopsyche lygdamus <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Nathan Fisk<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen Moehr writes: Today, with the sun blazing down on our slope in Metchosin, there was a lot of butterfly activity.\u00a0 Quite a few <strong>Western<\/strong> <strong>Spring Azures<\/strong>.\u00a0 I saw up to four simultaneously, and they were around all the time.\u00a0 Also one <strong>Grey Hairstreak<\/strong>, and one <strong>Sara Orangetip<\/strong> which I saw four or five times, always as a single butterfly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"P1090301.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/P1090301.jpg\" width=\"711.2\" height=\"614.5953333333333\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Western Spring Azure <em>Celastrina echo <\/em>(Lep.:Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 May 2 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Val George found this Silver-spotted Tiger Moth Lophocampa argentata caterpillar at Swan Lake yesterday, May 1. Silver-spotted Tiger Moth Lophocampa argentata (Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Arctiinae) Val George &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; \u00a0\u00a0 Nathan Fisk writes that he had such a lovely visit with two of these gems (Silvery Blues) at the [&hellip;]<\/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-5969","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\/5969","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=5969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6030,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969\/revisions\/6030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}