{"id":8295,"date":"2019-06-21T19:56:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T02:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=8295"},"modified":"2019-06-21T19:57:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T02:57:12","slug":"june-21-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=8295","title":{"rendered":"June 21"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum reports that, at 6:30 pm yesterday evening, he saw an Anise Swallowtail<\/strong> at the entrance to the reservoir on Mount Tolmie.  This evening, June 21, there were about six Painted Ladies<\/strong> and a Lorquin’s Admiral <\/strong>on the top of Mount Tolmie, but I didn’t see the Anise Swallowtail.<\/p>\n

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      Marie Shaughnessy writes that she saw and photographed a Common Emerald Moth <\/strong>(a European invader!) on the grass on Linden Street on June 18.  She writes that she hasn’t seen a green moth before.<\/p>\n

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

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   Butterflies, moths and dragonflies have been well-represented recently, so I hinted (writes Jeremy Tatum) to Scott Gilmore that we would welcome some beetles, and Scott promptly obliged!  Scott writes:  Here are a couple of beetles from Lantzville to fill the void. This first is Uloma longula<\/em><\/strong> from the family Tenebrionidae. It occasionally turns up at lights and I found this one on the night of June 12 at my house.  The second one is from the genus Heteroceris<\/em><\/strong> (family Heteroceridae, the Varigated Mud-loving Beetles) which I found on the edge of a local pond on June 16.<\/p>\n

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Uloma longula <\/em>(Col.: Tenebrionidae)  Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n

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Heterocerus <\/em>sp. (Col.: Heteroceridae)<\/p>\n

Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n

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   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Today, June 21, at Royal Roads University, I saw about half-a-dozen each of caterpillars of Satyr Comma <\/strong>and Painted Lady.<\/strong>  <\/strong> The Painted Lady caterpillars were on Onopordum<\/em>, that gigantic “Cotton Thistle”.  The commas were, as usual, on Stinging Nettle.<\/p>\n

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Satyr Comma Polygonia satyrus <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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Here is a caterpillar of Egira crucialis<\/em><\/strong>, a noctuid woodling moth whose adult is seen in early spring.  I have found this caterpillar on several plants, e.g. Salmonberry, Salal, Hardhack, Alder, but there is no doubt what it really likes to eat – the flowers of Ocean Spray.  This one is eating some with a fervour that is a joy to watch.<\/p>\n

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Egira crucialis <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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2019 June 21      Jeremy Tatum reports that, at 6:30 pm yesterday evening, he saw an Anise Swallowtail at the entrance to the reservoir on Mount Tolmie.  This evening, June 21, there were about six Painted Ladies and a Lorquin’s Admiral on the top of Mount Tolmie, but I didn’t see the Anise Swallowtail. […]<\/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-8295","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\/8295","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=8295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}