{"id":6129,"date":"2018-05-19T19:36:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T02:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6129"},"modified":"2018-05-19T19:36:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T02:36:31","slug":"may-19-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6129","title":{"rendered":"May 19 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2018 May 19 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Message from Gordon Hart:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Hello Butterfly Counters, <\/p>\n

The May count runs nine days from the third Saturday, May 19, to the fourth Sunday, May 27. You can submit a count anytime over this period, and you can do more than one count, just use a separate form for each count. In the case of repeat counts, or more than one person counting an area, I will take the highest count for each species.<\/p>\n

Please use the form at https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=33<\/a> on the Victoria Natural History Society website .<\/p>\n

The count area is the same as the Christmas Bird Count circle (attached). For butterfly identification there are numerous internet sites, but most or all Victoria species are listed on E-Fauna. If you select by photographer, all the photos under James Miskelly’s name are of Victoria species. Here is the link: http:\/\/linnet.geog.ubc.ca\/efauna\/photoGallery\/Gallery.aspx?gr=showall&pid=175&photographer=miskelly,%20james&specrep=0<\/a><\/p>\n

A lot of butterflies have been sighted recently, so a look at the Invertalert  (https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?cat=8<\/a>) will also show you many species flying now.<\/p>\n

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If you would like a suggestion for an area to count, please send me an email. The weather is finally looking much better this month, so we can hope for a good count.<\/p>\n

In addition to the counts, a monthly butterfly walk is held on the first Sunday of each month – the next walk will be on June 3rd. We start at the summit of Mount Tolmie at 1pm, and decide where to go from there. I will send out another reminder near the month-end.<\/p>\n

Thank-you for submitting your sightings and happy counting! <\/p>\n

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Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

Butterfly Count Coordinator<\/p>\n

Victoria Natural History Society<\/p>\n

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Count circle map link:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/christmasbirdcount.ca\/bcvi\/CBCMaps.html#VictoriaMap<\/a><\/p>\n

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   Jeremy Tatum writes:  A Spotted Tiger Moth <\/strong>emerged yesterday from a cocoon made by a caterpillar last year:<\/p>\n

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Spotted Tiger Moth Lophocampa maculata <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)  Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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2018 May 19 evening   Message from Gordon Hart:   Hello Butterfly Counters, The May count runs nine days from the third Saturday, May 19, to the fourth Sunday, May 27. You can submit a count anytime over this period, and you can do more than one count, just use a separate form for each count. […]<\/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-6129","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\/6129","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=6129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}