{"id":7609,"date":"2019-03-30T19:49:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T02:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7609"},"modified":"2019-03-31T19:20:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T02:20:51","slug":"march-30-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7609","title":{"rendered":"March 30"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Mark Wynja writes:\u00a0 Yesterday March 29th on Little Mountain (Parksville) the butterflies were active, and it reached 17o<\/sup>C. I observed one Mourning Cloak<\/strong>, one Cedar Hairstreak<\/strong>, and two of the rarely reported Oreas Commas<\/strong>. Three times the Commas met and they flew spiraling up overhead.<\/p>\n

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Oreas Comma Polygonia oreas <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Mark Wynja<\/p>\n

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Oreas Comma Polygonia oreas <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Mark Wynja<\/p>\n

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Oreas Comma Polygonia oreas <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Mark Wynja<\/p>\n

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Oreas Comma Polygonia oreas <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Mark Wynja<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr writes:\u00a0 Although I checked the status of the chrysalis [see January 22 entry] at my garden gate of the Sara Orangetip<\/strong> repeatedly every day, I missed the emergence, which happened today between something around 10 a.m., when I took the last picture of the chrysalis for my granddaughter in Germany, with the wing colours faintly shining through, and just now, around 2:25, when I went back and found the lid open and the chrysalis empty. \u00a0 And I had so much hoped for a picture of a freshly emerged Orangetip, if not a documentation of the emergence .\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Yes, emerging butterflies always do that.\u00a0 You can sit up with your camera focussed\u00a0 on the chrysalis for hours, and then, when you go a for a brief bathroom break, the butterfly emerges.\u00a0 \u00a0I\u2019m convinced they do it on purpose.]<\/p>\n

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Sara Orangetip Anthocharis sara <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Sara Orangetip Anthocharis sara <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Barb McGrenere writes: Mike and I saw two California Tortoiseshells<\/strong> near the Plaskett Telescope yesterday afternoon.\u00a0 They were both sunning on the paved area around the building. \u00a0Also, there was one male Sara Orangetip<\/strong> near the summit of Observatory Hill.<\/p>\n

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California Tortoiseshell Nymphalis californica <\/em> (Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Barbara McGrenere<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kirsten Mills writes:\u00a0 Today I saw one California Tortoiseshell<\/strong> on Mount Tolmie at 5:05pm. Later, I saw three three on Mount Douglas at 5:30pm. Below is the one that was on Mount Tolmie.<\/p>\n

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California Tortoiseshell Nymphalis californica <\/em> (Lep.: Nymphalidae)<\/p>\n

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2019 March 30 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Mark Wynja writes:\u00a0 Yesterday March 29th on Little Mountain (Parksville) the butterflies were active, and it reached 17oC. I observed one Mourning Cloak, one Cedar Hairstreak, and two of the rarely reported Oreas Commas. Three times the Commas met and they flew spiraling up overhead. Oreas Comma Polygonia oreas (Lep.: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7609","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\/7609","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=7609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7629,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7609\/revisions\/7629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}