{"id":6479,"date":"2018-06-27T13:22:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T20:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6479"},"modified":"2018-06-27T13:29:16","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T20:29:16","slug":"june-27-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6479","title":{"rendered":"June 27"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   <\/strong>In case anyone is looking for the June 26 Invert Alert – there wasn’t one!<\/p>\n

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   Aziza Cooper writes:  On June 23 I saw one Red Admiral <\/strong>at Mount Tolmie. There were also four Painted Ladies<\/strong>, one Western Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong> and one Lorquin’s Admiral<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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   Today, June 26, some bees were on the foreshore near Bowker Creek mouth. What would they be after?  [Any suggestions, anyone – or can anyone identify the bees?]<\/p>\n

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   Have you noticed how aggressive Lorquin’s Admirals<\/strong> are? They almost always swoop close to any person that passes them. I once had one swoop past my car!   [Jeremy Tatum –Yes, what with Lorquin’s Admirals and Northwestern Crows, Victoria is a pretty dangerous place!]<\/p>\n

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Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Bees on the seashore     Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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   Kirsten Mills writes:   Jeff Gaskin and I went to Kinsol Trestle around 1:45 pm on June 26. We saw this hairstreak<\/strong> which was very worn.   We think it’s a cedar<\/strong> but just want to double check.  [Jeremy Tatum writes:   Yes, I’ll go along with Cedar Hairstreak <\/strong>– but we’d welcome comments from other butterfly-ers.]  Later we went to Cowichan Station and saw two Margined Whites<\/strong> and dozens of dragonflies.  Here are some photographs.<\/p>\n

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Probably Cedar Hairstreak Mitoura rosneri <\/em> (Lep.: Lycaenidae)   Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n

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Probably Cedar Hairstreak Mitoura rosneri <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae) plus a thrips (Thysanoptera)<\/p>\n

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Margined White Pieris marginalis <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)  Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n

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Common Whitetail Plathemis lydia<\/em> (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n

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   Gordon Hart writes from the Highlands:  We saw one European (Essex) Skipper<\/strong> today along with a Dun<\/strong> Skipper<\/strong> on lavender plants.  We also had one Cedar Hairstreak<\/strong>, two Cabbage Whites<\/strong>, some Western Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong>, and many Lorquin’s Admirals<\/strong>. There were six on one bush feeding on sweet sticky aphid excretions .<\/p>\n

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Essex Skipper Thymelicus lineola <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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Dun Skipper Euphyes vestris <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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2018 June 27      In case anyone is looking for the June 26 Invert Alert – there wasn’t one!      Aziza Cooper writes:  On June 23 I saw one Red Admiral at Mount Tolmie. There were also four Painted Ladies, one Western Tiger Swallowtail and one Lorquin’s Admiral.      Today, June 26, […]<\/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-6479","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\/6479","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=6479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}