{"id":6253,"date":"2018-05-28T18:48:35","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T01:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6253"},"modified":"2018-05-28T18:49:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T01:49:24","slug":"may-28-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6253","title":{"rendered":"May 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2018 May 28<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>A plea from the Moderator<\/strong><\/span><strong>.<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;  <\/strong><strong>We are getting lots of exciting contributions at this time of year, which is a wonderful situation to be in &#8211; but of course the volume of contributions does make for a little bit of work.<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;  <\/strong><strong>This plea is not aimed at anyone in particular and it may sound like the Pontifications of a Pompous Professor to first-year students.<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;  <\/strong><strong>All the same it would be an <\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>immense<\/strong><\/span><strong> help to the Moderator if contributors could spend just a minute or so proofreading the text of their contributions for spelling,   capitalization of proper names, no abbreviations please, and little details like that.<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;  <\/strong><strong>I know that it takes a little extra to do it, but after all,<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;  <\/strong><strong>if you don&#8217;t do it, the Moderator has to &#8211; for all entries!<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;  <\/strong><strong>When a contribution comes in with all the text perfected, all I have to do is a quick copy-n-paste, and it is done in a second.<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;  <\/strong><strong>Otherwise it takes a few minutes per entry, and when there are half-a-dozen contributions, that begins to mount up.<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;  <\/strong><strong>But believe me &#8211; I very much appreciate all contributions, whether perfectly composed or not!  <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeff Gaskin writes:&nbsp; Today, May 28, I saw my first of the year  <strong>Lorquin&#8217;s Admirals<\/strong>.&nbsp; One was in Gorge Park, and the other flew through my Mom&#8217;s backyard on Wascana Street.&nbsp; Kirsten Mills told me she saw a  <strong>Lorquin&#8217;s Admiral<\/strong> on Saturday May 26, behind the Swan Lake nature house, so there seem to be a few of them around already.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp; Bryan Gates writes:&nbsp; I found this caterpillar today, May 28, 2018, in my yard at Saratoga Beach, Black Creek, B.C.&nbsp; (near the Oyster River).<\/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: 560px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"IMG_2102.jpeg\" originalwidth=\"640\" originalheight=\"480\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"444.59999999999997\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_2102.jpeg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Silver-spotted Tiger Moth <em>Lophocampa argentata  <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae &#8211; Arctiinae)&nbsp; Bryan Gates<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 May 28 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; A plea from the Moderator.&nbsp;&nbsp; We are getting lots of exciting contributions at this time of year, which is a wonderful situation to be in &#8211; but of course the volume of contributions does make for a little bit of work.&nbsp; This plea is not aimed at anyone in particular [&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-6253","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\/6253","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=6253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}