{"id":6185,"date":"2018-05-23T07:01:28","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T14:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6185"},"modified":"2018-05-28T13:54:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T20:54:24","slug":"may-23-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6185","title":{"rendered":"May 23 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2018 May 23 morning<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Ron Flower writes:\u00a0 Yesterday May 22 Nora and I went to Island View Beach and found two<strong> Anise<\/strong> <strong>Swallowtails<\/strong> at the boat ramp,\u00a0 a <strong>Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong> and numerous <strong>Ringlets<\/strong> in the back field. Then we stopped at Eddy\u2019s storage and found at least a dozen very active F<strong>ield Crescents<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_9742 (2) (Large).JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_9742-2-Large.jpg\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"422.864\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Field Crescent <em>Phyciodes pratensis <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae) Ron Flower<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_9745 (2) (Large).JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_9745-2-Large.jpg\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"429.78\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Field Crescent <em>Phyciodes pratensis <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae) Ron Flower<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Sheryl Falls writes:\u00a0 Several (at least 3)\u00a0<strong>Cinnabar moths<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><em>Tyria jacobaeae<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 at Harewood Plains, Nanaimo, on May 21.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"500_5416 ii.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/500_5416-ii.jpg\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"425.828\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cinnabar Moth <em>Tyria jacobaeae <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Arctiinae)\u00a0 Sheryl Falls<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 While viewers have correctly interpreted my exhortation \u00a0to \u201cconcentrate their attention on the less frequently photographed species\u201d as meaning \u201cplease do not flood me with dozens of photographs of Cabbage Whites and the like\u201d during the conference, I was not to get off so lightly.\u00a0 I was engaged in an earnest discussion last night with a Victoria astronomer on the latest trends in astrophysics, when she changed the subject and told me that she had lots of <strong>Cabbage White<\/strong> caterpillars on her cabbages.\u00a0 She did not want to kill the poor things, but she did not want them to eat her cabbages, and would I kindly deal with the problem.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t ever revealed my interest in caterpillars to my very professional colleagues, so I don\u2019t know which Invert Alert viewer must have tattle-taled.\u00a0 Anyway, the outcome is that, instead of being flooded with dozens of photographs of Cabbage Whites, I am now to be flooded with dozens of Cabbage White caterpillars.\u00a0 I am going to have to sneak out of the conference and place them carefully on one of the several other species of wild Brassicaceae that grow on the Saanich peninsula and on which I know the caterpillars will feed.\u00a0 J<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Anyway, keep on sending observations and photographs \u2013 though expect some delays during this conference week.\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 May 23 morning \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Ron Flower writes:\u00a0 Yesterday May 22 Nora and I went to Island View Beach and found two Anise Swallowtails at the boat ramp,\u00a0 a Tiger Swallowtail and numerous Ringlets in the back field. Then we stopped at Eddy\u2019s storage and found at least a dozen very active Field Crescents. 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