{"id":6826,"date":"2018-08-06T09:59:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T16:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6826"},"modified":"2018-08-09T10:12:34","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T17:12:34","slug":"august-6-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6826","title":{"rendered":"August 6 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeff Gaskin, Aziza Cooper and Jeremy Tatum write:\u00a0 The results of the August 5 VNHS\u00a0 Butterfly Walk \u2013 attended by about 10 people – are as follows\u00a0 :\u00a0\u00a0 On Mount Tolmie we had a prolonged close view of an Anise Swallowtail<\/strong><\/span> flying around and perching on the Fennel.\u00a0 \u00a0Jeff saw a Lorquin\u2019s Admiral<\/strong> and a Western Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong> on the way up the hill from Cedar Hill Cross Road.\u00a0 Then\u00a0we went to Island View Beach to look, unsuccessfully, for Purplish Coppers, but between Island View Beach and Saanichton Spit we saw the following\u00a0:\u00a0\u00a0 3 Lorquin\u2019s Admirals, 7<\/strong> Woodland Skippers, 2 Cabbage Whites<\/strong>.\u00a0 At Saanichton Spit we saw the following :\u00a0\u00a0 3 or more Woodland Skippers, <\/strong>at least 2 and maybe 3 Western Branded Skippers<\/strong><\/span> (our target species for the day), 3 Ringlets, 2 Cabbage Whites and 1 Lorquin\u2019s Admiral.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Along the way back to our cars from Saanichton Spit we stopped to look at more of the ubiquitous Woodland Skippers<\/strong>, no one listening to Aziza who tried in vain to tell everyone that one of them wasn\u2019t a Woodland Skipper.\u00a0 Eventually she was vindicated when she took an excellent photograph of what proved to be a rather late Essex Skipper<\/strong><\/span>, for a total of eight species \u2013 an excellent number for a dry season.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Here are some photographs from the trip, by Aziza Cooper and Gordon Hart.<\/p>\n

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Anise Swallowtail Papilio zelicaon <\/em>(Lep.: Papilionidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Anise Swallowtail Papilio zelicaon <\/em>(Lep.: Papilionidae)\u00a0 \u00a0Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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\u201cWestern\u201d Branded Skipper Hesperia comma colorado <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae) Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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

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Essex Skipper Thymelicus lineola <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Essex Skipper Thymelicus lineola <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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Lorquin\u2019s Admiral Limenitis lorquini <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Lorquin\u2019s Admiral Limenitis lorquini <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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Ringlet (Large Heath) Coenonympha tullia<\/em> \u00a0(Lep.: Nymphalidae \u2013 Satyrinae) Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Grasshopper\u00a0Trimeroptropis verruculat<\/i>a<\/span><\/span> (Orth.: Acrididae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Fall Webworm Hyphantria cunea <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Arctiinae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Gerry and Wendy Ansell write:\u00a0 There were quite a few Ringlets (Large Heaths)<\/strong> at Layritz Park yesterday (Aug 5).\u00a0 It was difficult to determine numbers as they were flitting everywhere so you couldn’t tell if they were repeats or new.\u00a0 I would guess a minimum of 12 and probably a lot more.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna sends some photographs from the Kemp Lake area, August 5.\u00a0 Thanks to Annie Pang and Lincoln Best for the bee identification.<\/p>\n

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Bombus melanopygus <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae) Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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Cabbage White Pieris rapae <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae) Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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Greenbottle Lucilia sericata <\/em>(Dip.: Calliphoridae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr writes that he saw some Lorquin\u2019s Admirals <\/strong>and Pine Whites<\/strong> while he was on the way to the Celebration of Life of Moralea Milne<\/strong>.\u00a0 On the way, he took a picture or a Pine White<\/strong> in memory of Moralea:<\/p>\n

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Pine White Neophasia menapia <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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August 6 morning \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeff Gaskin, Aziza Cooper and Jeremy Tatum write:\u00a0 The results of the August 5 VNHS\u00a0 Butterfly Walk \u2013 attended by about 10 people – are as follows\u00a0 :\u00a0\u00a0 On Mount Tolmie we had a prolonged close view of an Anise Swallowtail flying around and perching on the Fennel.\u00a0 \u00a0Jeff saw […]<\/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-6826","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\/6826","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=6826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6863,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6826\/revisions\/6863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}