{"id":7992,"date":"2019-05-19T16:49:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T23:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7992"},"modified":"2019-06-02T09:15:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T16:15:43","slug":"may-19-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7992","title":{"rendered":"May 19 afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2019 May 19 afternoon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Here\u2019s a nice caterpillar from Snowberry on Mount Tolmie this morning:<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/pastedImage-118.png\" width=\"544\" height=\"371.3846153846154\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Sicya crocearia <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 The Nature House at Goldstream Park is often a good place to find moths.\u00a0 I was there this afternoon and I saw one each pristine perfect <strong><em>Acronicta impressa <\/em><\/strong>and <strong><em>Probole americana<\/em><\/strong><strong>, <\/strong>perfectly placed for photography \u2013 and of course I didn\u2019t have my camera with me.\u00a0 Elsewhere in the park I saw a <strong>Cedar Hairstreak<\/strong> butterfly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Val George writes:\u00a0 This <strong>Stink Bug<\/strong> was in my Oak Bay garden today, May 19.\u00a0 Looks to me like <strong><em>Banasa dimiata. <\/em><\/strong>[Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Yes, I think so, too.\u00a0 Just like one that Terry Thormin identified for us on May 10.]<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"\" style=\"width: 548px; margin: 5px;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/pastedImage-119.png\" width=\"544\" height=\"362.9981718464351\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Red-backed Stink Bug <em>Banasa dimiata <\/em>(Hem.: Pentatomidae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Jeff Gaskin and Ron Flower both report that on Friday May 17, there were at least two (Jeff) or six (Ron) <strong>Silvery Blues<\/strong> in their usual location among the lupines at the Colwood exit from Highway 1.\u00a0 The first photograph below shows a female in the act of ovipositing on a lupine.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"\" style=\"width: 623px; margin: 5px;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/pastedImage-120.png\" width=\"544\" height=\"408.87179487179486\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Silvery Blue <em>Glaucopsyche lygdamus <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae) Ron Flower<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"\" style=\"width: 564px; margin: 5px;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/pastedImage-121.png\" width=\"544\" height=\"545.9290780141844\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Silvery Blue <em>Glaucopsyche lygdamus <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae) Ron Flower<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 May 19 afternoon \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Here\u2019s a nice caterpillar from Snowberry on Mount Tolmie this morning: Sicya crocearia (Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum &nbsp; \u00a0\u00a0 The Nature House at Goldstream Park is often a good place to find moths.\u00a0 I was there this afternoon and I saw one each pristine perfect Acronicta [&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-7992","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\/7992","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=7992"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8131,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7992\/revisions\/8131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}