{"id":6316,"date":"2018-06-08T15:46:58","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T22:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6316"},"modified":"2018-06-08T15:47:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T22:47:55","slug":"june-8-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6316","title":{"rendered":"June 8"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:  Thanks to several people for keeping me informed about recent butterfly sightings.  This will help me in finding them for my Sussex visitor.  Kirsten Mills writes that she has seen a Lorquin’s Admiral<\/strong> at Island View Beach (photograph below), and that there is a group of Cedar Hairstreaks<\/strong> on daisies along the second small path past the gate at the end of Goldstream Heights Drive.  Also there, a Pale Tiger Swallowtail.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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      Gordon Hart has both tiger swallowtails <\/strong>at his Highlands property, as well as a Cedar Hairstreak<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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     Aziza Cooper writes:  On Saturday, June 2, at the reservoir on Mount Tolmie, there was a Grey Hairstreak<\/strong> with others which I noted previously.   On Wednesday June 5, on the west slope of Mount Douglas, there was a Cinnabar Moth<\/strong>, one tattered Western Spring Azure, <\/strong> a Western Tiger Swallowtail, <\/strong>a Pale Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong> and <\/strong>a Lorquin’s Admiral.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Grey Hairstreak Strymon melinus <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Cinnabar Moth Tyria jacobaeae <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae  – Arctiinae)  Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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   We sometimes have difficulty in distinguishing between the several species of Bombus <\/em>(bumble bees).  Apparently we are not the only ones having this difficulty – evidently the bees don’t always get it right.  The photograph below, obtained by Liz Sparkes in Parksville in August 2017, shows a B. vosnesenskii <\/em> and a B. occidentalis in copula. <\/em>Although the date does not strictly qualify for Invertebrate “Alert”, we thought the photograph was sufficiently interesting to make an exception.<\/p>\n

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Bombus vosnesenskii <\/em>(male, left) and B.occidentalis <\/em>(female. right)  (Hym.: Apidae)  Liz Sparkes<\/p>\n

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2018 June 8      Jeremy Tatum writes:  Thanks to several people for keeping me informed about recent butterfly sightings.  This will help me in finding them for my Sussex visitor.  Kirsten Mills writes that she has seen a Lorquin’s Admiral at Island View Beach (photograph below), and that there is a group of Cedar […]<\/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-6316","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\/6316","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=6316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}