{"id":8102,"date":"2019-05-30T18:41:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T01:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=8102"},"modified":"2019-06-09T09:32:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T16:32:43","slug":"may-30-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=8102","title":{"rendered":"May 30"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For the May 29 posting (inadvertently omitted) see June 9 morning.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2019 May 30 <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Libby Avis sends a photograph of a caterpillar of a Common Emerald Moth <\/strong>Hemithea aestivaria<\/em><\/strong>, which was was hanging on the underside of a well-chewed Thimbleberry leaf in Port Alberni, May 28.<\/p>\n

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Common Emerald Hemithea aestivaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna writes:\u00a0 This Johnson\u2019s Jumping Spider<\/strong> \u00a0was in my fruit bowl just now. It lacks the bit of white I have seen on others in and around our house, Kemp Lake area, May 29.<\/p>\n

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Johnson\u2019s Jumping Spider Phidippus johnsoni <\/em> (Ara.: Salticidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Rosemary continues:\u00a0 I have been away in Williams Lake (lots of butterflies in the Williams Lake River Valley) for a while. \u00a0When I got back I fear my narcissus have had it. The Narcissus Bulb Fly <\/strong>Merodon<\/em><\/strong> equestris<\/strong><\/em> is back in action in our yard. Kemp Lake area, May 29.<\/p>\n

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Narcissus Bulb Fly Merodon equestris <\/em>(Dip.: Syrphidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Ron Flower writes:\u00a0 Yesterday May 29 we also went looking for more Field Crescents<\/strong> around 3 pm. We went to the small daisy field beside the native graveyard a kilometer north of Eddy\u2019s on West Saanich\u00a0 Road, where we found more Field Crescents than we could count.\u00a0 A very rough guess would be 20 and probably more.\u00a0 Lots of butterfly sex going on. I think 20 is a light estimate .<\/p>\n

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Field Crescent Phyciodes pratensis <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Ron Flower<\/p>\n

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Field Crescents Phyciodes pratensis <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Ron Flower<\/p>\n

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Jochen M\u00f6hr\u2019s moths in Metchosin this morning:<\/p>\n

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Nadata gibbosa<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Panthea virginarius<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Perizoma costiguttata<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Perizoma curvilinea<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pheosia californica<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tyria jacobaeae<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Trichordestra liquida <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Pheosia californica <\/em>(Lep.: Notodontidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 At the top of Mount Douglas early in the afternoon I saw four Pale Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong> and two Anise Swallowtails.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>At the top of Mount Tolmie at 6:00 pm today I saw three Painted Ladies<\/strong>, one Mourning Cloak <\/strong>(on the reservoir) and one Pale Tiger Swallowtail.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I seem to be seeing many more Pale Tiger Swallowtails this year than Western Tiger Swallowtails. I wonder if others are finding this.<\/p>\n

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For the May 29 posting (inadvertently omitted) see June 9 morning. 2019 May 30 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Libby Avis sends a photograph of a caterpillar of a Common Emerald Moth Hemithea aestivaria, which was was hanging on the underside of a well-chewed Thimbleberry leaf in Port Alberni, May 28. Common Emerald Hemithea aestivaria (Lep.: Geometridae) Libby Avis […]<\/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-8102","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\/8102","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=8102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8173,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8102\/revisions\/8173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}