{"id":6530,"date":"2018-07-05T19:32:16","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T02:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6530"},"modified":"2018-10-04T15:13:56","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T22:13:56","slug":"july-5-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6530","title":{"rendered":"July 5"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0\u00a0 Barbara McGrenere writes:\u00a0 Yesterday, on a walk along the Cowichan Valley Trail to the Kinsol Trestle, Mike and I saw many Western Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong>, several Cabbage Whites<\/strong> and several Lorquin\u2019s Admirals<\/strong>.\u00a0 There was one Clodius Parnassian<\/strong> nectaring on some purple flowers between the main parking lot and the Kinsol Trestle.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Nathan Fisk photographed the bee below at Fort Rodd Learning Meadow on July 3.\u00a0 Thanks to Annie Pang for identifying it as a European Wool Carder Bee <\/strong>Anthidium manicatum<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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European Wool Carder Bee Anthidium manicatum <\/em> (Hym.: Megachilidae)\u00a0 Nathan Fisk<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna found a pair of Lorquin\u2019s Admirals<\/strong> at Aylard\u2019s Farm,\u00a0 East Sooke Park, this morning, sharing a private moment.<\/p>\n

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Lorquin\u2019s Admirals Limenitis lorquini <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Val George writes:\u00a0\u00a0 Yesterday, July 4, on my way to Nanaimo I took a quick drive up the Nanaimo River Road to look for butterflies.\u00a0 As well as the more common species, I found a single Western Meadow<\/strong> Fritillary<\/strong> and a single Grey Hairstreak<\/strong>.\u00a0 The day before, July 3, there were two moths in my carport in Oak Bay.\u00a0 The one is, of course, a Common Emerald<\/strong>\u00a0 Hemithea aestivaria<\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0 is the other one a Herpetogramma pertexalis<\/em>?\u00a0\u00a0[Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Herpetogramma <\/em><\/strong>certainly.\u00a0 But is it H. pertextalis\u00a0 <\/em>or H. thestealis?<\/em>\u00a0 Libby Avis tells us that, according to current thinking, true pertextalis<\/em> occurs in Canada only in a small area in southern Ontario, so we\u2019ll have to label this one Herpetogramma thestealis<\/em><\/strong>.]<\/p>\n

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\nWestern Meadow Fritillary Boloria epithore <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n

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Grey Hairstreak Strymon melinus<\/em> (Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n

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Common Emerald Hemithea aestivaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n

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Herpetogramma thestealis <\/em>(Lep.: Crambidae) Val George<\/p>\n

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July 5 \u00a0 [No July 4 posting] \u00a0\u00a0 Barbara McGrenere writes:\u00a0 Yesterday, on a walk along the Cowichan Valley Trail to the Kinsol Trestle, Mike and I saw many Western Tiger Swallowtails, several Cabbage Whites and several Lorquin\u2019s Admirals.\u00a0 There was one Clodius Parnassian nectaring on some purple flowers between the main parking lot and […]<\/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-6530","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\/6530","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=6530"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7196,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6530\/revisions\/7196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}