{"id":6238,"date":"2018-05-27T19:18:17","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T02:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6238"},"modified":"2018-10-04T09:14:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T16:14:00","slug":"may-27-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6238","title":{"rendered":"May 27 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2018 May 27 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:<strong>\u00a0 <\/strong> On May 17 morning I posted pictures of three unidentified caterpillars, with speculation as to what they were.\u00a0 The one I speculated as <em>Choristoneura rosaceana <\/em>was harbouring hymenopterous (Braconidae?) parasitoids, and it died, so we shall never know.\u00a0 We probably shan\u2019t see the adult of the geometrid caterpillar until early next year.\u00a0 The adult moth from the caterpillar that was speculated to be <strong><em>Hedya nubiferana<\/em><\/strong> emerged today, and it turned out indeed to be that species.\u00a0 Photograph below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 430px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 498px;\" title=\"Hedya.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Hedya.jpg\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Hedya nubiferana <\/em>(Lep.: Tortricidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy continues:\u00a0 Today I saw several\u00a0 (I didn\u2019t count)<strong> Field Crescents<\/strong> at Eddy\u2019s storage. \u00a0For those who don\u2019t know where Eddy\u2019s Storage is and who would like to see this butterfly, it is on the north side of Stelly\u2019s Cross Road, a few tens of yards to the west of West Saanich Road.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy continues:\u00a0 I saw my first <strong>Mourning Cloak <\/strong>since 2016 at Quick\u2019s Bottom today.\u00a0 Quick\u2019s Bottom is reached from Markham Street in Saanich.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kirsten Mills writes:\u00a0 Here are some butterflies from Goldstream Heights this morning. I saw <strong>6 Pale Tiger Swallowtails,<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>3 Western Tiger Swallowtails <\/strong>and<strong> 1 Anise Swallowtail. <\/strong>Also<strong> 1 Western Brown Elfin,<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>6 Cedar Hairstreaks <\/strong>and<strong> 5 Western Spring Azures.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 555px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"rutulus.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/rutulus.jpg\" width=\"677.6\" height=\"494.8003330557869\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Pale Tiger Swallowtail <em>Papilio eurymedon <\/em> (Lep.: Papilionidae)\u00a0 Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 602px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"rosneri K.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/rosneri-K.jpg\" width=\"677.6\" height=\"521.752\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cedar Hairstreak <em>Mitoura rosneri <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy also found a <strong>Cedar Hairstreak, <\/strong>also at Goldstream Heights.\u00a0 Marie writes: I was with Kirsten and I believe she is sending you some pics to ID too of this butterfly. There were many up there today. Feasting on daisy nectar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"rosneri Mt.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/rosneri-Mt.jpg\" width=\"677.6\" height=\"681.2528301886792\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cedar Hairstreak <em>Mitoura rosneri <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae) Marie O&#8217;Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum found this caterpillar on a Blackberry leaf at Quick\u2019s Bottom today:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image010.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Emerald.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Emerald.jpg\" width=\"677.6\" height=\"451.73333333333335\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Common Emerald <em>Hemithea aestivaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 May 27 evening \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 On May 17 morning I posted pictures of three unidentified caterpillars, with speculation as to what they were.\u00a0 The one I speculated as Choristoneura rosaceana was harbouring hymenopterous (Braconidae?) parasitoids, and it died, so we shall never know.\u00a0 We probably shan\u2019t see the adult of the [&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-6238","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\/6238","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=6238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7195,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238\/revisions\/7195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}