{"id":6074,"date":"2018-05-16T10:36:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T17:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6074"},"modified":"2018-05-16T10:49:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T17:49:28","slug":"may-16-morning-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6074","title":{"rendered":"May 16 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2018 May 16 morning
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   <\/strong>We have had a few bees in the queue for a while.  Thanks to Claudia Copley and David Blades for identifying them for us.<\/p>\n

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Bombus melanopygus <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae)   Annie Pang<\/p>\n

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Bombus <\/em>sp. (perhaps mixtus<\/em>) <\/em> (Hym.: Apidae)  Annie Pang<\/p>\n

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Bombus fervidus <\/em>(Hym.:  Apidae)   Nathan Fisk<\/p>\n

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Bombus flavifrons <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae) Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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   Mike Yip writes from Nanoose Bay: I haven’t done much butterflying but have a few photos to share. While photographing eagles on Denman Island last week I made a brief Editha (“Taylor’s”) Checkerspot<\/strong> stop and found one in the first minute, but didn’t see another for the next 15 minutes of looking. On the way home I stopped at Little Mountain hoping for the Oreas Comma<\/strong> seen and well photographed by Mark Wynja but had to settle for an obliging Pale Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong> instead. Yesterday I checked Cross Road and saw the usual Western Tailed Blues, Western Brown Elfins, Grey Hairstreaks<\/strong>, and the big surprise was an Arctic Skipper <\/strong>which is new for the area. Disappointing that there have been no signs of the Western Pine Elfins this year.  In my yard today I finally caught up with the small brown butterfly that had been tormenting me for the past four days. I saw it land about 15 feet up a cedar tree and was able to get a record shot with my bird lens – you guessed it – Cedar Hairstreak<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Editha (“Taylor’s”) Checkerspot Euphydryas editha taylori <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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Pale Tiger Swallowtail Papilio eurymedon <\/em> (Lep.: Papilionidae)  Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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Grey Hairstreak Strymon melinus <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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Arctic Skipper (also known as Chequered Skipper) Carterocephalus palaemon <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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2018 May 16 morning      We have had a few bees in the queue for a while.  Thanks to Claudia Copley and David Blades for identifying them for us.   Bombus melanopygus (Hym.: Apidae)   Annie Pang   Bombus sp. (perhaps mixtus) (Hym.: Apidae)  Annie Pang Bombus fervidus (Hym.:  Apidae)   Nathan Fisk     Bombus […]<\/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-6074","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\/6074","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=6074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}