{"id":6095,"date":"2018-05-17T16:20:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T23:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6095"},"modified":"2018-05-17T16:25:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T23:25:59","slug":"may-17-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6095","title":{"rendered":"May 17 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2018 May 17 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Nathan Fisk sends a photograph of a colourful bee, kindly identified for us by Sean McCann as either  <strong><em>Agapostemon<\/em><\/strong><strong> or <\/strong><strong><em>Augochlora<\/em><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/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;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"green.jpg\" originalwidth=\"1200\" originalheight=\"990\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"489.05999999999995\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/green.jpg\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Agapostemon <\/em>or<em> Augochlora <\/em>(Hym.: Halictidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Nathan Fisk<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeff Gaskin writes:&nbsp; Yesterday evening, May 16, on Christmas Hill I saw 1  <strong>Propertius Duskywing<\/strong>, and 3 <strong>Painted Ladies<\/strong> on the southern peak.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Kirsten Mills writes:&nbsp;&nbsp; I had this <strong>Pale Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong> by the reservoir on Mount Tolmie today around noon. There was also a  <strong>Painted Lady<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 612px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"DSCN0267.JPG\" originalwidth=\"1192\" originalheight=\"865\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"430.1778523489932\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSCN0267.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Pale Tiger Swallowtail <em>Papilio eurymedon<\/em> (Lep.: Papilionidae)&nbsp; Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Annie Pang sends a photograph of a <strong>Cedar Hairstreak  <\/strong>&nbsp;from Gorge Park on May 4 &#8211; a different, and much fresher &#8211; individual from the one shown on May 3.&nbsp; Annie says:&nbsp; &#8220; I &nbsp;know they are still on the wing in Metchosin and probably in Gorge Park as well&#8221;.&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum says: &nbsp;&#8220;I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m ready   to use the name &#8217;<em>Callophrys gryneus<\/em>&#8217; for this butterfly yet!&#8221;<\/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_image006.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"P1350722 rev.jpg\" originalwidth=\"800\" originalheight=\"716\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"530.556\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/P1350722-rev.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cedar Hairstreak <em>Mitoura rosneri <\/em>(Lep.:&nbsp; Lycaenidae)&nbsp; Annie Pang<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 May 17 evening &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Nathan Fisk sends a photograph of a colourful bee, kindly identified for us by Sean McCann as either Agapostemon or Augochlora. &nbsp; Agapostemon or Augochlora (Hym.: Halictidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Nathan Fisk &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeff Gaskin writes:&nbsp; Yesterday evening, May 16, on Christmas Hill I saw 1 Propertius Duskywing, and 3 Painted [&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-6095","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\/6095","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=6095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}