{"id":7975,"date":"2019-05-18T19:01:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T02:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7975"},"modified":"2019-05-18T19:05:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T02:05:59","slug":"may-18-evening-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7975","title":{"rendered":"May 18 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2018 May 18 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n

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   <\/strong>Gordon Hart writes:<\/p>\n

Hello Butterfly Counters, <\/p>\n

I have been away from Victoria, so I am sorry for the late announcement, but we will go ahead with a May Butterfly Count<\/strong>, starting today, May 18<\/strong>, and running until next Sunday, May 25. You can submit a count anytime over this period, and you can do more than one count, just use a separate form for each count. In the case of repeat counts, or more than one person counting an area, I will take the highest count for each species.<\/p>\n

Please use the form at https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=33<\/a> on the Victoria Natural History Society website .<\/p>\n

The count area is the same as the Christmas Bird Count circle (attached). For butterfly identification there are numerous internet sites, but most or all Victoria species are listed on E-Fauna. If you select by photographer, all the photos under James Miskelly’s name are of Victoria species. Here is the link: http:\/\/linnet.geog.ubc.ca\/efauna\/photoGallery\/Gallery.aspx?gr=showall&pid=175&photographer=miskelly,%20james&specrep=0<\/a><\/p>\n

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If you would like a suggestion for an area to count, please send me an email. <\/p>\n

In addition to the counts, a monthly butterfly walk is held on the first Sunday of each month – the next walk will be on June 2. We start at the summit of Mount Tolmie at 1pm, and decide where to go from there. I will send out another reminder the week before. <\/p>\n

Thank-you for submitting your sightings and happy counting! <\/p>\n

Gordon Hart,<\/p>\n

Butterfly Count Coordinator,<\/p>\n

Victoria Natural History Society<\/p>\n

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   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Bill Savale and I went to the railway line around Malahat Station and the surrounding hills today, and we saw a Mourning Cloak<\/strong> and a Two-banded Grizzled Skipper.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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   <\/strong>Jochen M\u00f6hr writes:  I went up Single Hill behind our home with Kem Luther today.  We came across many Western Spring Azures<\/strong>, but because of a boisterous breeze, taking pictures was even more problematic than usual with these little lively beasties.  Coming down to our house, there were many Western Spring Azures fluttering about – at least four seen simultaneously.  I got a picture of a female on budding blossoms of Ocean Spray.  It might have been ovipositing, but even using a magnifying glass and scrutinizing the branch after it had left, I could not find an egg.  The male was mud puddling in a flower bed  that we had watered thoroughly last afternoon.  [Jeremy Tatum writes:  You have to search on the outside of the calyces of flower buds that are just about to open.  From what you describe (“budding blossoms”) I suspect your butterfly was indeed ovipositing.]<\/p>\n

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Male Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo <\/em> (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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   Ron Flower writes:  Today Saturday May 18 we went to Eddy’s storage 1064 Stelly’s Cross Road at 1:30 pm and found the Field Crescents<\/strong> very active. We saw about 10 but could have been more. <\/p>\n

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Field Crescent Phyciodes pratensis <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Ron Flower<\/p>\n

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2018 May 18 evening      Gordon Hart writes: Hello Butterfly Counters, I have been away from Victoria, so I am sorry for the late announcement, but we will go ahead with a May Butterfly Count, starting today, May 18, and running until next Sunday, May 25. You can submit a count anytime over this […]<\/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-7975","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\/7975","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=7975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}