{"id":6764,"date":"2018-07-30T16:23:51","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T23:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6764"},"modified":"2018-07-30T16:27:19","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T23:27:19","slug":"july-30-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6764","title":{"rendered":"July 30"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   <\/strong>Jeff Gaskin writes:   The VNHS trip to Mount Washington and Paradise Meadows yesterday produced the following highlights  :   2 Boisduval’s Blues, 40 – 50 Anna’s Blues, 4 Cabbage Whites, up to 10 Western Meadow Fritillaries, up to 20 Hydaspe Fritillaries, 1 Western Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong>.  Val George and Gordon Hart observed 2 Woodland Skippers<\/strong>, and 2 Branded Skippers <\/strong>that the rest of the group missed.  So a total of 8 species were tallied making for a fun and enjoyable trip.<\/p>\n

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   Here are some photographs from the trip by Val George and Gordon Hart:<\/p>\n

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Mariposa Copper Lycaena mariposa <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Val George<\/p>\n

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Anna’s Blue Lycaeides anna <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Val George<\/p>\n

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Hydaspe Fritillary Speyeria hydaspe <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Val George<\/p>\n

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Common Branded Skipper  Hesperia comma <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)   Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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    Jeremy Tatum writes:  Now that Hesperia <\/em>skippers have started to appear at Cordova Spit, it would be interesting to get some photographs of them to compare with the Hesperia <\/em>skippers on Mount Washington.  Some authorities would recognize two distinct species, the skippers on Mount Washington being Hesperia comma<\/em> and the ones on Cordova Spit being Hesperia colorado. <\/em>For the time being on this site I am listing both populations under Hesperia comma.<\/em><\/p>\n

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   <\/em>The 2017 Butterfly Report for this site was posted on 2018 January 1, currently on page 36.  (This page number will increase with time.)  It shows that Hesperia <\/em>Skippers were seen at Cordova Spit from August 1 – 7.  The first sighting this year was on July 28.<\/p>\n

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July 30      Jeff Gaskin writes:   The VNHS trip to Mount Washington and Paradise Meadows yesterday produced the following highlights  :   2 Boisduval’s Blues, 40 – 50 Anna’s Blues, 4 Cabbage Whites, up to 10 Western Meadow Fritillaries, up to 20 Hydaspe Fritillaries, 1 Western Tiger Swallowtail.  Val George and Gordon Hart observed 2 […]<\/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-6764","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\/6764","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=6764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}