{"id":7831,"date":"2019-05-04T12:18:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T19:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7831"},"modified":"2019-05-04T12:27:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T19:27:09","slug":"may-4-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7831","title":{"rendered":"May 4 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2019 May 4 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>VNHS Monthly Butterfly Walk.  <\/strong><\/span><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>The first of this year&#8217;s monthly butterfly walks will take place this  <strong>Sunday, May 5.<\/strong>&nbsp; Meet at the <strong>top of Mount Tolmie<\/strong> (off Cedar Hill Cross Road) next to the reservoir at  <strong>1:00 p.m.<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; We&#8217;ll have an initial look for butterflies there, and then decide where to go from there.&nbsp; All welcome.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Some recent sightings from Gordon Hart from his Highlands property:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">April 28th, a <strong>Western Spring Azure<\/strong> and a  <strong>Sara Orangetip<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">May 1,<strong> 1 Western Brown Elfin, 3 Western Spring Azures<\/strong>, and a  <strong>Sara Orangetip<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">May 2 , some <strong>Western Spring Azures<\/strong> (about 3), and a  <strong>Propertius Duskywing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Mount Tolmie, April 30, a <strong>California Darner <\/strong>  <strong><em>Rhionaeschna californica<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"470\" width=\"562.4\" height=\"423.6025641025641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/pastedImage-16.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">California Darner <em>Rhionaeschna californica <\/em>  (Odo.: Aeshnidae)&nbsp; Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; This morning&#8217;s moth haul from Jochen M\u00f6hr, Metchosin:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>2 Eupithecia<\/em><\/strong><strong>s<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>1 Feralia,<\/em><\/strong><strong> <\/strong>  probably<strong><em> comstocki<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>1 Orthosia transparens<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>1 Perizoma curvilinea<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>1 <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Selenia alciphearia<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 532px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"532\" originalheight=\"483\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/pastedImage-17.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Selenia alciphearia <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 May 4 morning &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; VNHS Monthly Butterfly Walk. &nbsp;&nbsp;The first of this year&#8217;s monthly butterfly walks will take place this Sunday, May 5.&nbsp; Meet at the top of Mount Tolmie (off Cedar Hill Cross Road) next to the reservoir at 1:00 p.m.&nbsp;&nbsp; We&#8217;ll have an initial look for butterflies there, and then decide [&hellip;]<\/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-7831","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\/7831","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=7831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}