{"id":6676,"date":"2018-07-20T15:46:02","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T22:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6676"},"modified":"2018-10-04T15:56:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T22:56:13","slug":"july-20-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6676","title":{"rendered":"July 20"},"content":{"rendered":"
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July 20<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>In case you were wondering….\u00a0 I had incorrectly labelled the previous posting as July 18.\u00a0 I have now corrected it to July 19.\u00a0 There was a July 18 morning posting, but not a July 18 evening.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Notice from Gordon Hart<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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Hello Butterfly Counters,<\/p>\n

The July count runs nine days from the third Saturday, July 21, to the fourth Sunday, July 29. You can submit a count anytime over this period, and you can do more than one count, just use a separate form for each count. In the case of repeat counts, or more than one person counting an area, I will take the highest count for each species.<\/p>\n

Please use the form at\u00a0https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=33<\/a>\u00a0on the Victoria Natural History Society website. If you have a zero count, or just one or two butterflies, you can email me directly.<\/p>\n

The count area is the same as the Christmas Bird Count circle (attached). For butterfly identification, the Garry Oak Ecosystems Recovery Team (GOERT) has a useful chart of butterflies of southern Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands:\u00a0http:\/\/www.goert.ca\/documents\/Butterfly_ID_sheet.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

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If you would like a suggestion for an area to count, please send me an email.<\/p>\n

In addition to the counts, a monthly butterfly walk is held on the first Sunday of each month – the next walk will be on August 5. We start at the summit of Mount Tolmie at 1pm, and decide where to go from there. I will send out another reminder near the month-end.<\/p>\n

Thank-you for submitting your sightings and happy counting!<\/p>\n

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Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

Butterfly Count Coordinator<\/p>\n

Victoria Natural History Society<\/p>\n

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Count circle map link:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/christmasbirdcount.ca\/bcvi\/CBCMaps.html#VictoriaMap<\/a><\/p>\n

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Two more Metchosin moths from Jochen M\u00f6hr, kindly identified by Libby Avis.<\/p>\n

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Hesperumia latipennis <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Homorthodes hanhami <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Aziza Cooper writes: On July 19 I found this Woodland Skipper<\/strong> at Bear Hill. Also there were one Pine<\/strong> White<\/strong>, three Western Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong> and six Lorquin’s Admirals<\/strong>.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes: I thought I was seeing my first Woodland Skippers of the year today (July 20) at Puckle Road, Central Saanich, but on closer imspection it turned out that they were two latish Essex Skippers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Annie Pang sends a picture of a male halictid bee of the genus Agapostemon<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Male Agapostemon <\/em>sp.\u00a0 (Hym.: Halictidae)\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/p>\n

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July 20 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 In case you were wondering….\u00a0 I had incorrectly labelled the previous posting as July 18.\u00a0 I have now corrected it to July 19.\u00a0 There was a July 18 morning posting, but not a July 18 evening. \u00a0\u00a0 Notice from Gordon Hart: Hello Butterfly Counters, The July count runs nine days from […]<\/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-6676","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\/6676","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=6676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7198,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676\/revisions\/7198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}