{"id":6503,"date":"2018-06-30T10:52:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T17:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6503"},"modified":"2018-06-30T11:01:53","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T18:01:53","slug":"june-30-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6503","title":{"rendered":"June 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>2018 June 30<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">Gordon Hart writes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">Hello Butterfly Watchers,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">  This is a reminder that the monthly <strong>VNHS Butterfly Walk<\/strong> will be on Sunday July 1, Canada Day! We will meet at the summit of Mount Tolmie by the reservoir at 1 p.m.&nbsp; I was thinking of a trip to Island View Beach for Purplish Coppers and whatever   else might be around, but we can decide at the time.&nbsp; The weather is supposed to be sunny, so hope to see you Sunday,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">  -Gordon<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr writes:&nbsp; June is practically over, and I have not seen or seen mentioned any June Beetles  <em>Polyphylla <\/em>sp.&nbsp; &nbsp;Are they gone?&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I looked up in the Invert Alert Index, and I see that we have six photographs of the adult  <em>sog.<\/em> June Beetle. Only one of them is in June (June 25); the remainder are in July (latest is July 28).&nbsp; So there is hope yet.&nbsp;&nbsp; Claudia Copley tells me that our species is best referred to as  <em>Polyphylla crinita.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\"><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Aziza Cooper sends an interesting photograph of the pale forma  <em>pallida<\/em> of the <strong>Essex Skipper <\/strong>from Cattle Point<strong>.<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;  <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp;&nbsp; We see these from time to time &#8211; maybe I see about one a year, not more.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve written to David Harris to see if he sees them in Sussex.&nbsp; It&#8217;s not a subspecies &#8211; it&#8217;s just a &#8220;form&#8221;.&nbsp; I suppose someone has worked out the genetics   of it, though I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">&nbsp; <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" style=\"width:564px; margin:5px\" src=\"\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"M Bfly pale skipper 1b.JPG\" originalwidth=\"800\" originalheight=\"588\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"435.70799999999997\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/M-Bfly-pale-skipper-1b.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Essex Skipper <em>Thymelicus lineola <\/em>f. &#8220;<em>pallida<\/em>&#8221; (Lep.: Hesperiidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 June 30 &nbsp; Gordon Hart writes: &nbsp; Hello Butterfly Watchers, This is a reminder that the monthly VNHS Butterfly Walk will be on Sunday July 1, Canada Day! We will meet at the summit of Mount Tolmie by the reservoir at 1 p.m.&nbsp; I was thinking of a trip to Island View Beach for [&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-6503","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\/6503","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=6503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}