{"id":8147,"date":"2019-06-04T18:46:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T01:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=8147"},"modified":"2019-06-05T15:19:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T22:19:24","slug":"june-4-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=8147","title":{"rendered":"June 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2019 June 4<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jochen M\u00f6hr reports slim pickings from his Metchosin home in the last two days.\u00a0 Yesterday just an <strong>American Lappet Moth <\/strong><strong><em>Phyllodesma americana <\/em><\/strong>(a fine moth anyway!), joined today by a <strong>Spotted Tiger Moth <\/strong><strong><em>Lophocampa maculata<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum reports the emergence today of an <strong> Essex Skipper<\/strong> butterfly, from a caterpillar found at Panama Flats on May 17.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/pastedImage-12.png\" width=\"581.6\" height=\"424.0833333333333\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Essex Skipper <em>Thymelicus lineola <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy also sends the picture of a moth below, which is <em><strong>H.<\/strong><\/em> <em><strong>thestealis<\/strong><\/em>. The caterpillar of this one was found in mid-May near Cowichan Station, feeding on <em>Fragaria vesca.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\" 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\/06\/pastedImage-13.png\" width=\"581.6\" height=\"382.14102564102564\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Herpetogramma thestealis <\/em>(Lep.: Crambidae) Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Aziza Cooper writes:\u00a0 Today, June 4, I was with the VNHS Tuesday Group birders. We walked along Lochside Trail to Outerbridge Park and back by Blenkinsop Road. I saw:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Western Tiger Swallowtail &#8211; 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Pale Tiger Swallowtail &#8211; 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Mourning Cloak &#8211; 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Cabbage White &#8211; 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 There were about eight <strong> Painted Ladies <\/strong>at the top of Mount Tolmie this evening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 June 4 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr reports slim pickings from his Metchosin home in the last two days.\u00a0 Yesterday just an American Lappet Moth Phyllodesma americana (a fine moth anyway!), joined today by a Spotted Tiger Moth Lophocampa maculata. \u00a0 Jeremy Tatum reports the emergence today of an Essex Skipper butterfly, from a caterpillar [&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-8147","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\/8147","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=8147"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8152,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8147\/revisions\/8152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}