{"id":6006,"date":"2018-05-06T20:16:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T03:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6006"},"modified":"2018-05-07T08:36:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T15:36:53","slug":"may-6-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6006","title":{"rendered":"May 6"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2018 May 6<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Kirsten Mills writes that there were two California Tortoiseshells<\/strong> and a Propertius Duskywing <\/strong> on the summit of Mount Douglas yesterday evening.<\/p>\n

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California Tortoiseshell Nymphalis californica <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Kirsten also writes that this afternoon, between 2:00 and 2:30 pm, there were two Anise Swallowtails<\/strong> on Mount Douglas between the top parking lot and the summit. Also two Propertius<\/strong> Duskywings<\/strong> and three Sara Orangetips<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Aziza Cooper writes: Yesterday, May 5, I saw three Silvery Blues<\/strong> at the lupins along the Galloping Goose trail near the beginning of Sooke Road at Island Highway.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Annie Pang writes:\u00a0 I finally sighted a White Ribbon Carpet Moth <\/strong>Mesoleuca gratulata<\/em><\/strong> at Gorge Park, Victoria, BC, yesterday, May 5, 2018.\u00a0 Had to run all over the park to get the moth to land, and even then it didn’t stay still for long before it was off again.\u00a0 It took several tries and this was the best I could get.\u00a0 [Pretty good, I\u2019d say \u2013 Jeremy Tatum]<\/p>\n

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Mesoleuca gratulata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 Jody Wells sends a picture of a \u201cfly with a long drinking straw\u201d from near the summit at Oak Haven Park,Brentwood Bay.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum says that as long as it isn\u2019t a plastic drinking straw, that\u2019s OK.<\/p>\n

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Bee fly Bombylius major <\/em>(Dip.: Bombyliidae)\u00a0 Jody Wells<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Here is a moth reared from a caterpillar from Blenkinsop Lake and released there this morning:<\/p>\n

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

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes that during a walk along the Panhandler Tail off Munn Road this morning, he saw several Western Spring Azures <\/strong>and Sara Orangetips<\/strong>, a Propertius Duskywing<\/strong>, a Western<\/strong> Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong> and a Green Comma<\/strong> which kept landing on his jacket.\u00a0 Also several of the usual spring day-flying geometrid moths: Mesoleuca gratulata, Epirrhoe plebeculata<\/em><\/strong>, one Rheumaptera hastata<\/em><\/strong>, and two Leptostales rubromarginaria<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 The VNHS had its monthly Butterfly Walk for May this afternoon.\u00a0 We hope to give a report tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n

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2018 May 6 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Kirsten Mills writes that there were two California Tortoiseshells and a Propertius Duskywing on the summit of Mount Douglas yesterday evening. California Tortoiseshell Nymphalis californica (Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Kirsten Mills   \u00a0\u00a0 Kirsten also writes that this afternoon, between 2:00 and 2:30 pm, there were two Anise Swallowtails on Mount Douglas […]<\/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-6006","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\/6006","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=6006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6011,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6006\/revisions\/6011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}