{"id":7703,"date":"2019-04-16T16:30:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T23:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7703"},"modified":"2019-04-16T16:36:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T23:36:08","slug":"april-16-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7703","title":{"rendered":"April 16"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2019 April 16<\/strong><\/p>\n

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   <\/strong>Mile Yip writes from Nanoose:   Hasn’t been much butterfly weather up here, but I saw a Western Pine<\/strong> Elfin<\/strong> last week on the Cross Road trail. I checked again today but I think it was too cool – about 11\u00b0 C. At the warmer southwest face of the notch several Sara Orangetips<\/strong> were flying as well as two Propertius<\/strong> Duskywings<\/strong> and three Cabbage Whites<\/strong>. A female Propertius Duskywing<\/strong> did settle down to bask and allowed for a photo.  <\/p>\n

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Propertius Duskywing <\/em>Erynnis proper<\/em>tius <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Mike Yip<\/div>\n

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   Gerry and Wendy Ansell write:  There were two Sara Orangetips<\/strong> at the base of Christmas Hill yesterday (April 15) at around 4:15p.m..  They were beautiful, fresh specimens.  Also a few Cabbage Whites.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum writes:  <\/p>\n

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   Sonia Voicescu is by now well engaged in putting all the butterfly observations that appear on Invertebrate Alert on to eButterfly.  It is a big job (and likely to get bigger as the season goes on!) so we thank Sonia for it.  Viewers may notice that Val usually accompanies his observations with precise geographic coordinates.  This is a great help to Sonia, so we encourage anyone who is tech-savvy and who can easily give coordinates (of butterfly sightings) to do so. However, we stress that we certainly don’t want butterfly watching to become a chore, so, if you can’t easily get coordinates, don’t worry about it!  Just send in your observations as usual, with a reasonable indication of where<\/strong> (not “my back yard”!!!!!!) and when<\/strong> you saw it.  See March 19 entry for more information on eButterfly.<\/p>\n

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   There is also the question of the names<\/span>  to be used for butterflies.  eButterfly may not use the same names that we have become accustomed to using.   Sonia and I are keeping in touch about this.   For example, what we usually call the Western Spring Azure is called by eButterfly the Echo Azure.  Every book seems to use a different set of names, and the names seem to change with alarming frequency.  Many butterflies have what is called an “extensive synonymy”!<\/p>\n

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   On Invert Alert, I do not try to keep up with every name-change.  I think it would be quite confusing to change them every year.   I try to use a consistent set of names from year to year.  I list below the names that are used on Invertebrate Alert for some of our commoner butterflies.  These names are neither “right” nor “wrong” – they are just the ones that we use on Invertebrate Alert.  You will find many different names elsewhere.  <\/p>\n

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Propertius Duskywing   Erynnis propertius<\/em><\/p>\n

Two-banded Grizzled Skipper Pyrgus ruralis<\/em><\/p>\n

Essex Skipper Thymelicus lineola<\/em><\/p>\n

Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides<\/em><\/p>\n

Clodius Parnassian Parnassius clodius<\/em><\/p>\n

Anise Swallowtail Papilio zelicaon<\/em><\/p>\n

Western Tiger Swallowtail Papilio rutulus<\/em><\/p>\n

Pale Tiger Swallowtail Papilo eurymedon<\/em><\/p>\n

Pine White Neophasia menapia<\/em><\/p>\n

Margined White Pieris marginalis<\/em><\/p>\n

Cabbage White Pieris rapae<\/em><\/p>\n

Sara Orangetip Anthocaris sara<\/em><\/p>\n

Orange Sulphur Colias eurytheme<\/em><\/p>\n

Purplish Copper Lycaena helloides<\/em><\/p>\n

Cedar Hairstreak Mitoura rosneri<\/em><\/p>\n

Western Brown Elfin Incisalia iroides<\/em><\/p>\n

Moss’s Elfin Incisalia mossii<\/em><\/p>\n

Western Pine Elfin Incisalia eryphon<\/em><\/p>\n

Grey Hairstreak Strymon melinus<\/em><\/p>\n

Western Tailed Blue Everes amyntula<\/em><\/p>\n

Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo<\/em><\/p>\n

Silvery Blue Glaucopsyche lygdamus<\/em><\/p>\n

Satyr Comma Polygonia satyrus<\/em><\/p>\n

Green Comma Polygonia faunus<\/em><\/p>\n

California Tortoiseshell Nymphalis californica<\/em><\/p>\n

Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa<\/em><\/p>\n

Milbert’s Tortoiseshell Aglais milberti<\/em><\/p>\n

American Lady Vanessa virginiensis<\/em><\/p>\n

Painted Lady Vanessa cardui<\/em><\/p>\n

West Coast Lady Vanessa annabella<\/em><\/p>\n

Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta<\/em><\/p>\n

Hydaspe Fritillary Speyeria hydaspe<\/em><\/p>\n

Field Crescent Phyciodes pratensis<\/em><\/p>\n

Mylitta Crescent Phyciodes mylitta<\/em><\/p>\n

Lorquin’s Admiral Limenitis lorquini<\/em><\/p>\n

Ringlet or Large Heath Coenonympha tullia<\/em><\/p>\n

Common Woodnymph Cercyonis pegala<\/em><\/p>\n

Great Arctic Oeneis nevadensis<\/em><\/p>\n

Monarch Danaus plexippus<\/em><\/p>\n

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2019 April 16      Mile Yip writes from Nanoose:   Hasn’t been much butterfly weather up here, but I saw a Western Pine Elfin last week on the Cross Road trail. I checked again today but I think it was too cool – about 11\u00b0 C. At the warmer southwest face of the notch several […]<\/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-7703","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\/7703","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=7703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}