{"id":792,"date":"2015-05-22T00:30:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T07:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=792"},"modified":"2016-03-20T10:26:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T17:26:37","slug":"may-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=792","title":{"rendered":"May 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2015 May 21<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0 I managed to see at least one <strong> Silvery Blue<\/strong> today, Thursday May 21, and it was amongst lupines at the Colwood turnoff and at the start of Sooke Road and about a block away from Atkins Road.\u00a0 I am also seeing a lot more <strong>Pale Swallowtails<\/strong> in Victoria so far this year. There were five along the Galloping Goose\/Atkins Road and a further seen on Observatory Hill on Tuesday. Amazingly enough I\u2019m not seeing any Western Tiger Swallowtails this year yet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Annie Pang sends a photo of a caterpillar of a <strong>Lorquin\u2019s Admiral<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-788\" title=\"Monster bug.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image555e78a9c9a06.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"588.8\" height=\"295.87199999999996\" name=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image555e78a9c9a06.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image555e78a9c9a06-300x151.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image555e78a9c9a06-768x386.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image555e78a9c9a06-1024x515.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Lorquin\u2019s Admiral <em>Limenitis lorquini <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 She also sends photographs of a species of <strong>ichneumon wasp<\/strong>.\u00a0 A correspondent has suggested a probable identity as <strong><em>Opheltes <\/em><\/strong><strong>sp.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-789\" title=\"ichneumon1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image555e78a9ca8f9.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"588.8\" height=\"435.15999999999997\" name=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image555e78a9ca8f9.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image555e78a9ca8f9-300x222.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Probably <em>Opheltes<\/em> sp. (Hym.: Ichneumonidae) Annie Pang<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-790\" title=\"ichneumon2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image555e78a9cabfc.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"588.8\" height=\"477.47999999999996\" name=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image555e78a9cabfc.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image555e78a9cabfc-300x243.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Probably <em>Opheltes<\/em> sp. (Hym.: Ichneumonidae) Annie Pang<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-791\" title=\"ichneumon3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image555e78a9caf1a.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"588.8\" height=\"465.52\" name=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image555e78a9caf1a.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image555e78a9caf1a-300x237.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Probably <em>Opheltes<\/em> sp. (Hym.: Ichneumonidae) Annie Pang<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 May 21 \u00a0 \u00a0 Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0 I managed to see at least one Silvery Blue today, Thursday May 21, and it was amongst lupines at the Colwood turnoff and at the start of Sooke Road and about a block away from Atkins Road.\u00a0 I am also seeing a lot more Pale Swallowtails in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","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=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1953,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions\/1953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}