{"id":6492,"date":"2018-06-28T18:43:10","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T01:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6492"},"modified":"2018-06-28T18:49:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T01:49:06","slug":"june-28-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6492","title":{"rendered":"June 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2018 June 28<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Ann Nightingale sends a photograph of larvae of the  <strong>Mountain Ash Sawfly<\/strong>, which are <strong>DE<\/strong>foliating her Mountain Ash.&nbsp; This is a European species, long established as an invader in eastern North America, and a recent invader in the west.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 546px; 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=\"sawfly.jpg\" originalwidth=\"2016\" originalheight=\"1512\" width=\"536.8\" height=\"402.6\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/sawfly.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mountain Ash Sawfly <em>Pristiphora geniculata <\/em>  (Hym.: Tenthredinidae)&nbsp; Ann NIghtingale<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Marie O&#8217;Shaughnessy sends photographs of three butterflies from Mount Tolmie, June 26.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"REDAD.jpg\" originalwidth=\"1200\" originalheight=\"921\" width=\"536.8\" height=\"411.99399999999997\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/REDAD.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Red Admiral <em>Vanessa atalanta <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)&nbsp; Marie O&#8217;Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"LOADa2.jpg\" originalwidth=\"1200\" originalheight=\"871\" width=\"536.8\" height=\"389.6273333333333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/LOADa2.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Lorquin&#8217;s Admiral&nbsp; <em>Limenitis lorquini<\/em><em>&nbsp;  <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)&nbsp; Marie O&#8217;Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"PALEa5.jpg\" originalwidth=\"1200\" originalheight=\"851\" width=\"536.8\" height=\"380.68066666666664\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/PALEa5.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Pale Tiger Swallowtail <em>Papilio eurymedon <\/em>  (Lep.: Papilionidae)&nbsp; Marie O&#8217;Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp; &nbsp;Annie Pang sends a photograph of a <strong>Cabbage White  <\/strong>&nbsp;from Gorge Park.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image010.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"P1360189 snd rev.jpg\" originalwidth=\"800\" originalheight=\"721\" width=\"536.8\" height=\"483.79099999999994\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1360189-snd-rev.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cabbage White <em>Pieris rapae <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae) Annie Pang<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; Last night, June 27, I visited Cairn Hill in Highrock Park, Esquimalt, at 6:15 pm to see if there were any hilltopping nymphalids there.&nbsp; There was just one &#8211; a  <strong>Painted Lady<\/strong>.&nbsp; However, it was rather windy at the time, and I think that that hill would be a good place to check more often for hilltoppers in less windy evenings.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 June 28 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ann Nightingale sends a photograph of larvae of the Mountain Ash Sawfly, which are DEfoliating her Mountain Ash.&nbsp; This is a European species, long established as an invader in eastern North America, and a recent invader in the west. &nbsp; Mountain Ash Sawfly Pristiphora geniculata (Hym.: Tenthredinidae)&nbsp; Ann NIghtingale &nbsp; [&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-6492","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\/6492","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=6492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}