{"id":6282,"date":"2018-06-02T19:12:34","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T02:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6282"},"modified":"2018-06-03T09:31:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T16:31:50","slug":"june-2-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6282","title":{"rendered":"June 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>2018 June 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>Reminder:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>Monthly Butterfly Walk tomorrow, Sunday June 3, 1:00 pm, top of Mount Tolmie.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jochen M\u00f6hr sends a picture of a <strong>Large Yellow Underwing <\/strong>from his Metchosin garden.\u00a0\u00a0 In case anyone is unsure about what are meant by <em>orbicular stigma <\/em>(round spot) or <em>reniform stigma <\/em>(kidney-shaped spot), have a look at this moth.\u00a0 Now you know!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 623px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"N pronuba20180601_115857.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/N-pronuba20180601_115857.jpg\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"592.8\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Large Yellow Underwing <em>Noctua pronuba<\/em> (Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0 The story of the butterfly below was told on May 23, when I asked for no Cabbage White photographs that week, because I was involved in a conference. Instead I was given a dozen or so Cabbage White caterpillars by a conference delegate! \u00a0A photograph of one of them was shown on May 24, and the chrysalis was shown two days later.\u00a0 Now the adult has emerged (photograph below), June 2, just nine days having been spent in the pupal stage.<\/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_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_2865.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_2865.jpg\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"410.0199999999999\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Female Cabbage White <em>Pieris rapae <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae) Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Annie Pang sends two views of a <strong>Western Tiger Swallowtail <\/strong>from Gorge Park, Victoria, May 30.<\/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_image006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"P1360293.snd ventral revJPG.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1360293.snd-ventral-revJPG.jpg\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"563.16\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Western Tiger Swallowtail, <em>Papilio rutulus <\/em> (Lep.: Papilionidae)\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"P1360296 snd face rev.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1360296-snd-face-rev.jpg\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"575.016\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Western Tiger Swallowtail, <em>Papilio rutulus <\/em> (Lep.: Papilionidae)\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr reports seeing a <strong>bee hawk moth <\/strong><strong><em>Hemaris thetis<\/em><\/strong> in Metchosin today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a02018 June 2 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Reminder:\u00a0 Monthly Butterfly Walk tomorrow, Sunday June 3, 1:00 pm, top of Mount Tolmie. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr sends a picture of a Large Yellow Underwing from his Metchosin garden.\u00a0\u00a0 In case anyone is unsure about what are meant by orbicular stigma (round spot) or reniform stigma (kidney-shaped spot), have [&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-6282","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\/6282","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=6282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6287,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6282\/revisions\/6287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}