{"id":8218,"date":"2019-06-13T19:57:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T02:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=8218"},"modified":"2019-06-13T20:06:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T03:06:56","slug":"june-13-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=8218","title":{"rendered":"June 13 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2019 June 13 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeff Gaskin writes:&nbsp; Today, June 13, in Beacon Hill Park I saw at least  <strong>10 Western Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong> and <strong>1 Lorquin&#8217;s Admiral<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Gordon Hart writes from the Highlands:&nbsp; <strong>Giant sawflies  <\/strong>have appeared again on the same blueberry bushes as in previous years. They perch near the top and make short sallies from there, presumably looking for a mate. They appear to have powerful jaws but I can&#8217;t find information on what the adults eat.   [Good question!&nbsp; I&#8217;m not sure either.&nbsp; Any ideas, anyone?&nbsp; Jeremy].&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 623px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"460\" width=\"579.2\" height=\"426.974358974359\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/pastedImage-59.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Trichiosoma triangulum <\/em>(Hym.: Cimbicidae)&nbsp; Gordon Hart.<\/p>\n<p><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Gordon continues:&nbsp; On June 11, we saw the first <strong>  <em>Sphinx perelegans<\/em><\/strong> of the year coming to the petunias at sunset. This is earlier than other years and they should continue through July. &nbsp;I have not obtained a photo yet this year. We still have up to six species of butterfly most days, but   not large numbers:<strong> Cedar<\/strong> <strong>Hairstreak, Cabbage White, Lorquin&#8217;s Admiral, Pale<\/strong> and<strong> Western Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong>, and on June 10, a  <strong>Green Comma<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 June 13 evening &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeff Gaskin writes:&nbsp; Today, June 13, in Beacon Hill Park I saw at least 10 Western Tiger Swallowtails and 1 Lorquin&#8217;s Admiral. &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Gordon Hart writes from the Highlands:&nbsp; Giant sawflies have appeared again on the same blueberry bushes as in previous years. They perch near the top [&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-8218","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\/8218","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=8218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}