{"id":761,"date":"2015-06-28T03:56:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T10:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=761"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:38:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:38:04","slug":"june-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=761","title":{"rendered":"June 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><html> <head> <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=iso-8859-1\"> <\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" style=\"display:none\"><!--P{margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} --><\/style>\n<p> <\/head> <body dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-size:12pt;color:#000000;background-color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"> <\/p>\n<p><strong>2015 June 27<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I tried my little bit of the monthly Butterfly Count today along the Munn Road power lines, but it was too hot for me and even for the butterflies and all I saw was a couple of <strong>Essex Skippers<\/strong>.&nbsp; However, I did find a <strong>Western Brown Elfin <\/strong>caterpillar, unusually on Ocean Spray.&nbsp; I have very occasionally found it on Ocean Spray before, although its usual foodplant is Salal.&nbsp; The head, by the way, is towards the left in the photograph.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"809\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"W Brown Elfin la.JPG\" height=\"396.9493333333333\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image558f70765eb4d.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">Western Brown Elfin <em>Incisalia iroides <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae) Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Some may doubt that it can be too hot for butterflies, but Annie Pang makes the same observation (particularly for dark butterflies), only she expresses it better than I can:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>A Lorquin&#8217;s Song on a hot day<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p> Beneath the shadows I retreat<br \/> to find respite from scorching heat<br \/> before the day is far from done,<br \/> I hide myself from too much sun.<br \/> My wings are dark, my wings are frail,<br \/> I must protect each tiny scale<br \/> for life is short and life is rough,<br \/> and for a butterfly, it&#8217;s tough.<br \/> We fight for mates so we can breed<br \/> so we&#8217;ll live on in next year&#8217;s seed,<br \/> But in this heat today I hide<br \/> and in the shadows I&#8217;ll abide<br \/> until I&#8217;m cool enough to sun<br \/> before the day is all but done.<br \/> <em>\u00a9 Annie Pang<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 389px;\" hasheight=\"false\" setwidth=\"389\" setheight=\"328\" originalheight=\"539\" originalwidth=\"640\" name=\"\" title=\"P1240702 hiding 3 rev.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image558f70765f6f7.jpeg\"><\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\">Hiding from the sun<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Lorquin&#8217;s Admiral <em>Limenitis lorquini <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Annie Pang<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" hasheight=\"true\" setwidth=\"361\" setheight=\"287\" style=\"width: 361px; height: 287px;\" originalheight=\"507\" originalwidth=\"640\" name=\"\" title=\"P1240712 sunning 7 rev.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image558f70765f8d3.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;Cool enough to sun <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Lorquin&#8217;s Admiral <em>Limenitis lorquini <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Annie Pang<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/body> <\/html> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 June 27 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I tried my little bit of the monthly Butterfly Count today along the Munn Road power lines, but it was too hot for me and even for the butterflies and all I saw was a couple of Essex Skippers.&nbsp; However, I did find a Western Brown Elfin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761","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=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1679,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions\/1679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}