{"id":6260,"date":"2018-05-30T19:57:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T02:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6260"},"modified":"2018-05-30T20:06:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T03:06:12","slug":"may-30-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6260","title":{"rendered":"May 30"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2018 May 30<\/strong><\/p>\n

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   <\/strong>Ondrea Clarkson sends a picture of a Pale Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong> from just outside the Elliott Building, UVic, yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n

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Pale Tiger Swallowtail Papilio eurymedon <\/em> (Lep.: Papilionidae)  Ondrea Clarkson<\/p>\n

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   <\/strong>Jochen M\u00f6hr sends a picture of a highflyer (Hydriomena <\/em>sp.) from Metchosin.  It is difficult to decide between two similar species,  H. californiata<\/em><\/strong> or H. marinata<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Hydriomena californiata\/marinata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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   Annie Pang sends a picture of a bee, kindly identified by Cory Sheffield and Lincoln Best as Bombus fervidus<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Bombus fervidus <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae)  Annie Pang<\/p>\n

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    Nathan Fisk sends photographs of two bees from Fort Rodd Hill yesterday.   We are not sure exactly which species they are – but they are hard at work pollinating.<\/p>\n

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Unidentified bee (Hym.: Apidae)   Nathan Fisk<\/p>\n

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Unidentified bee (Hym.: Apidae)   Nathan Fisk<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum sends a picture of a caterpillar found at Rithet’s Bog on May 29.<\/p>\n

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Lorquin’s Admiral Limenitis lorquini <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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   Annie Pang sends pictures of a Spotted Tiger Moth<\/strong>, which emerged yesterday from a cocoon made by a caterpillar last fall that Annie successfully reared.  (See her caterpillar 2017 September 7 and 16, and the cocoon, September 27.)<\/p>\n

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

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

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2018 May 30      Ondrea Clarkson sends a picture of a Pale Tiger Swallowtail from just outside the Elliott Building, UVic, yesterday afternoon.   Pale Tiger Swallowtail Papilio eurymedon (Lep.: Papilionidae)  Ondrea Clarkson      Jochen M\u00f6hr sends a picture of a highflyer (Hydriomena sp.) from Metchosin.  It is difficult to decide between two […]<\/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-6260","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\/6260","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=6260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}