{"id":7622,"date":"2019-03-31T19:14:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T02:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7622"},"modified":"2019-03-31T19:17:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T02:17:12","slug":"march-31-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7622","title":{"rendered":"March 31"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:  Have been so busy with Invert Alert recently (a welcome problem!) that I overlooked Val  George’s recent report of his first butterflies of the season, a California Tortoiseshell <\/strong>on Mount Tolmie, and a Cabbage White <\/strong>checking out the kale in his garden in Oak Bay on March 29.<\/p>\n

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

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   Geoffrey and David Newell report two California Tortoiseshells <\/strong>from Mount Douglas today, March 31, as well as many Sara Orangetips<\/strong> and a Propertius Duskywing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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

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    Ken Vaughan sends a photo of a California Tortoiseshell <\/strong>Nymphalis californica<\/em><\/strong> <\/em>from the Mount Tolmie reservoir on 30 March 2019 at about 4:00 PM.<\/p>\n

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

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   Gordon Hart writes:  The Green Commas<\/strong> continue here in the Highlands, with three yesterday. We also saw one faded Satyr Comma<\/strong> Polygonia satyrus<\/em><\/strong>, a Mourning Cloak<\/strong> Nymphalis antiopa hyperborea<\/em><\/strong> and a Moss’ Elfin<\/strong> Callophrys mossii mossii<\/em><\/strong>. We have been planting and encouraging more of the Moss’ Elfin larval food plant, stonecrop Sedum  spathulifolium<\/em>.  Still lots of Epirrhoe plebeculata<\/em><\/strong> around, and I will look for <\/em><\/strong>Mesoleuca gratulata<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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Moss’s Elfin Incisalia mossii <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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   And just as we go to press, a nice underside of a California Tortoiseshell<\/strong>, photographed by Val George on the summit of Mount Douglas 48.492834\/-123.345710 today, March 31.  Also there were seven  <\/strong>Sara<\/strong> Orangetips <\/strong>and one Cabbage White.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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