{"id":6053,"date":"2018-05-12T19:31:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T02:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6053"},"modified":"2018-05-12T19:49:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T02:49:03","slug":"may-12-evening-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6053","title":{"rendered":"May 12 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2018 May 12 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum and Bill Savale went to the railway line north of Cowichan Station today.&nbsp; Very few butterflies there, but we did see about four  <strong>Margined Whites<\/strong>, a <strong>Satyr Comma<\/strong> and a <strong>Mylitta Crescent<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; The Herb Robert (on which the Margined White nectars) is only just starting.&nbsp; The ditch by the side of the railway track is nearly dry, and what little water was in it seemed rather dirty and polluted.&nbsp; There was no  <em>Narcissus<\/em> (on which the Margined Whites oviposit) there, which does not augur well for the future of this butterfly there.&nbsp; There was, however, lots of  <em>Hesperis matronalis<\/em>, which does serve as an alternative larval foodplant (though some regard this plant as an undesirable invasive species).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp; We saw three things there that are not invertebrates and therefore don&#8217;t strictly belong on this site, but I mention them for interest since they are not often seen in the immediate area of Victoria, namely, Wild Ginger,&nbsp; California   Tea, and Northwestern Toad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp; Nothing on the Mount Tolmie reservoir or around the Jeffery Pine at 6:45 this evening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Moralea Milne writes:&nbsp; Excellent Moth Talk last night by the wonderful team of Libby and Rick Avis&nbsp; &#8211; then this fabulous creature (photo below) turned up on my doorstep in Metchosin last night. Nothing like a photo of a moth   to show that I need to do some painting! I shall send out an email with a list of moth resources later. Thank you for your continued interest in our natural world, and I hope your next few months, until our September 21st Talk and Walk (on vultures), supplies   you with many opportunities to enjoy our native flora and fauna.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"Hyalophora euryalus.jpg\" originalwidth=\"1005\" originalheight=\"1200\" width=\"711.2\" height=\"849.1940298507463\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Hyalophora-euryalus.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ceanothus Silk Moth <em>Hyalophora euryalus <\/em>(Lep.: Saturniidae)&nbsp; Moralea Milne<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 May 12 evening &nbsp; &nbsp; Jeremy Tatum and Bill Savale went to the railway line north of Cowichan Station today.&nbsp; Very few butterflies there, but we did see about four Margined Whites, a Satyr Comma and a Mylitta Crescent. &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; The Herb Robert (on which the Margined White nectars) is only just starting.&nbsp; [&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-6053","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\/6053","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=6053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}