{"id":7727,"date":"2019-04-21T19:54:29","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T02:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7727"},"modified":"2019-05-09T09:42:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T16:42:48","slug":"april-21-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7727","title":{"rendered":"April 21"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2019 April 21<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ron Flower writes:\u00a0 We went back to the\u00a0 Goldstream River yesterday April 20 at 1:30 pm. I got one shot of the Sexton Beetle<\/strong> before it flew away. We also saw 8 Western Spring Azures, 2 Satyr Commas, 2 Propertius Duskywings <\/strong>and 1 Mourning Cloak .<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Propertius Duskywing Erynnis propertius <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Ron Flower<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Charlene Wood writes: This beetle is Nicrophorus defodiens<\/i><\/strong>. Black antennal club and base of elytral epipleuron entirely black whereas the epipluron base is orange in the similar looking N. vespilloides<\/i>, which has a black antennal club (with fine white hairs on the 9th and 10th antennal segments).<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 This species doesn’t bury its carrion in the soil, rather they conceal them under leaf litter or debris. The orange spots on the elytra are larger and more connected in other parts of its North American range, but coastal forms often have reduced spots on the elytra, as shown in yours.<\/div>\n
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Sexton beetle\u00a0 Nicrophorus<\/em> defodiens<\/em> (Col.: Silphidae) Ron Flower<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mike Yip writes from Nanoose:\u00a0 Spent an hour at the Fairwinds Garry Oak meadows yesterday morning and saw at least a dozen Propertius Duskywings<\/strong>. The first one was basking on the grass and moss in one particular spot and it returned there regardless of the many distractions such as other duskywings. About six were seen nectaring on Blue-eyed Susan and one was on an oak branch but I don’t know if it oviposited. The only other species there was a Western Brown Elfin<\/strong>. \u00a0\u00a0Later, two Western Spring Azures<\/strong> were seen on the Cross Road trail.<\/p>\n

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Propertius Duskywing Erynnis propertius <\/em>(Lep. Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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Propertius Duskywing Erynnis propertius <\/em>(Lep. Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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Propertius Duskywing Erynnis propertius <\/em>(Lep. Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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Western Brown Elfin Incisalia iroides <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Hart writes:\u00a0 On Saturday, April 20, we had a good day for butterflies. There was one fresh Cabbage White<\/strong>, one Mourning Cloak<\/strong>, at least two Western Spring Azures<\/strong>, and at least three commas, and I think all were Satyr Commas<\/strong>. I have attached a photo of the Cabbage White<\/strong> and a Satyr Comma<\/strong>. There were several \u00a0Mesoleuca gratulata <\/em><\/strong>flying around. We still have not seen any Orangetips.<\/p>\n

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Cabbage White Pieris rapae <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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Satyr Comma Polygonia satyrus <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0 Kirsten Mills and I saw a Moss\u2019s Elfin<\/strong> and up to six Western Spring Azures<\/strong> on the Panhandle Trail near Francis Park today, April 21.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna writes:\u00a0 This very small jumping spider<\/strong> is living in a cherry tree in our Kemp Lake garden photographed April 20..<\/p>\n

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Jumping spider \u00a0(Ara.: \u00a0Salticidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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Jumping spider \u00a0(Ara.: \u00a0Salticidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Rosemary writes:\u00a0\u00a0 The small spider below was resting on the rail of the bridge over Charters Creek on April 19, 2019 (Sooke River Road).\u00a0\u00a0 Robb Bennett writes: This is an ant-mimicking gnaphosid, a species of Sergiolus<\/em><\/strong>. Most probably Sergiolus columbianus<\/em><\/strong> but could be S. montanus<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Sergiolus<\/em>(probably columbianus<\/em>)\u00a0 (Ara.: Gnaphosidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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2019 April 21 Ron Flower writes:\u00a0 We went back to the\u00a0 Goldstream River yesterday April 20 at 1:30 pm. I got one shot of the Sexton Beetle before it flew away. We also saw 8 Western Spring Azures, 2 Satyr Commas, 2 Propertius Duskywings and 1 Mourning Cloak . Propertius Duskywing Erynnis propertius (Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 […]<\/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-7727","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\/7727","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=7727"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7887,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7727\/revisions\/7887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}