{"id":7893,"date":"2019-05-10T10:08:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T17:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7893"},"modified":"2019-05-11T10:07:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T17:07:51","slug":"may-10-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7893","title":{"rendered":"May 10 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2018 May 9 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0Rhys Harrison sends photographs of a comma<\/strong> from halfway up the Eagle Chair on Mount Washington, at 4400 feet, May 8.\u00a0\u00a0 Would this be a Hoary Comma<\/strong>?\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I\u2019m calling it a Hoary (\u201cZephyr\u201d) Comma<\/strong>, but I\u2019d be glad of input from observers experienced with this difficult group.\u00a0 [Added later:\u00a0 Mark Wynja concurs!]<\/p>\n

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Hoary (\u201cZephyr\u201d) Comma Polygonia gracilis zephyrus <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Rhys Harrison<\/p>\n

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Hoary (\u201cZephyr\u201d) Comma Polygonia gracilis zephyrus <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Rhys Harrison<\/p>\n

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Annie Pang photographed this bug at Gorge Park Community Gardens in Victoria on May 8, 2019.\u00a0 Thanks to Terry Thormin for identifying it as a Red-backed Stink Bug <\/strong>Banasa dimiata<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Red-backed Stink Bug Banasa dimiata <\/em>(Hem.: Pentatomidae) Annie Pang<\/p>\n

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Rosemary Jorna writes: \u00a0There were ten or more of these little bugs on Miner\u2019s Lettuce near the parking lot at Mount Wells on May 9.\u00a0 Many thanks to Terry Thormin for identifying them as Cosmopepla intergressa<\/strong><\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Cosmopepla intergressa <\/em>(Hem.: Pentatomidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna writes:\u00a0 We stopped for lunch at the 17 Mile Pub. All was quiet on the butterfly front; then seven or eight Western Spring Azures<\/strong> were dancing up and down the row of flowers; \u00a0after about ten minutes they were gone.<\/p>\n

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Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Annie Pang writes: I was at Playfair Park on May 7 thanks to a friend who seems interested
\nin learning about butterflies. While there we saw several Cabbage Whites,<\/strong> two Western Spring Azures<\/strong> and two Western<\/strong> Brown Elfins<\/strong>, one of which seemed keen on defending “her” territory.\u00a0 This allowed me to get several pictures of this worn female, fat with eggs.<\/p>\n

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Western Brown Elfin Incisalia iroides <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Aziza Cooper writes: \u00a0May 9, one Painted Lady<\/strong> was north of the northern parking lot on Mount Tolmie. I also saw three Spring Azures<\/strong> and two Propertius Duskywings<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Painted Lady Vanessa cardui <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Rebecca Reader-Lee writes:\u00a0 I was getting ready for bed last night (May 8th) and had quite the fright when I thought a bird had hit the window, but it turned out to be a massive moth which I believe to be Hyalophora euryalus<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I had no clue there were native moths of that size! [Wait until you see a Polyphemus!] I live in the North Highlands.<\/p>\n

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2018 May 9 morning \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Rhys Harrison sends photographs of a comma from halfway up the Eagle Chair on Mount Washington, at 4400 feet, May 8.\u00a0\u00a0 Would this be a Hoary Comma?\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I\u2019m calling it a Hoary (\u201cZephyr\u201d) Comma, but I\u2019d be glad of input from observers experienced with this difficult […]<\/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-7893","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\/7893","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=7893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7913,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7893\/revisions\/7913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}