{"id":6899,"date":"2018-08-16T19:38:05","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T02:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6899"},"modified":"2018-08-16T19:39:42","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T02:39:42","slug":"august-16-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6899","title":{"rendered":"August 16"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2018 August 16<\/strong><\/p>\n

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[There was no Invert Alert for August 15.]<\/p>\n

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From Gordon Hart:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Hello Butterfly Counters, <\/p>\n

The August count runs nine days from the third Saturday, August 18, to the fourth Sunday, August 26. 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 https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=33<\/a> on 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: http:\/\/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 September 2. 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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Jochen M\u00f6hr did well last night with his moth trap in Metchosin:<\/p>\n

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10 Tolype distincta<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

2 Perizoma curvilinea<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

2 Neoalcis californiaria <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Drepanulatrix monicaria<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Eulithis xylina<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Nemoria darwiniata<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Here are three of the pictures that he obtained.  The first two are Neoalcis californiaria<\/em><\/strong> and make an interesting contrast to Thomas Barbin’s dark specimen shown on August 14.  The first of these shown below is fairly typical in this area.  The second is a rather pale or perhaps faded example.  The third photograph, identified by Libby Avis as Caradrina montana<\/em><\/strong>, is a new one for this site.<\/p>\n

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Neoalcis californiaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Neoalcis californiaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Caradrina montana <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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   Kurtis Herperger sends a photograph of a beetle that came to his moth trap in the Highlands last night.   Thanks to Scott Gilmore for help with the identification as  Trichocnemis spiculatus<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Trichocnemis spiculatus <\/em>(Col.: Cerambycidae)  Kurtis Herperger<\/p>\n

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   Rosemary Jorna sends a picture of a female Common Whitetail <\/strong>(which isn’t nearly as common as some of our other dragonflies !), which was cruising in her yard yesterday Aug 15  2018 in the Kemp Lake area.<\/p>\n

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Common Whitetail Plathemis lydia <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)  Rosemary Jorna <\/em><\/p>\n

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2018 August 16   [There was no Invert Alert for August 15.]   From Gordon Hart:   Hello Butterfly Counters, The August count runs nine days from the third Saturday, August 18, to the fourth Sunday, August 26. You can submit a count anytime over this period, and you can do more than one count, […]<\/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-6899","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\/6899","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=6899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}