{"id":843,"date":"2015-05-28T23:51:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T06:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=843"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:38:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:38:06","slug":"may-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=843","title":{"rendered":"May 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><html> <head> <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=iso-8859-1\"> <\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" style=\"display:none\"><!--P{margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} --><\/style>\n<p> <\/head> <body dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-size:12pt;color:#000000;background-color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"> <\/p>\n<p><strong>2015 May 28<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Aziza Cooper writes:&nbsp; This afternoon (May 27) I saw a few butterflies in the Garry Oak meadows of Summit Park. A <strong>Lorquin&#8217;s Admiral<\/strong> was a first-of-year for me. Also:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Western Tiger Swallowtail -4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cabbage White &#8211; 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Painted Lady &#8211; 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Western Spring Azure &#8211; 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; Baby caterpillars of <strong>Red Admiral <\/strong>and <strong> Satyr Comma<\/strong> are now to be found in the nettles at the side of Lochside Drive near Blenkinsop Lake.&nbsp; Here are one of each.&nbsp; They were very tiny indeed, so forgive any shortcomings in the photos!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" hasheight=\"true\" setwidth=\"449\" setheight=\"260\" style=\"width: 449px; height: 260px;\" originalheight=\"694\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"Red Adm la.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image5567aa0db2d69.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">Red Admiral <em>Vanessa atalanta <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae) Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 366px;\" hasheight=\"false\" setwidth=\"366\" setheight=\"236\" originalheight=\"775\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"Satyr Com la.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image5567aa0db3f80.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\">Satyr Comma <em>Polygonia satyrus <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae) Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Ken Vaughan writes:&nbsp; &nbsp; I was out on Sunday, 24 May 15, around the Beaver Lake Retriever Ponds. I saw one <strong>Pale Swallowtail<\/strong> (it&#8217;s big!), several <strong>Cabbage Whites<\/strong>, <br \/> and a few odonates. I was limited to the bushy areas away from the main <br \/> pond, due to dog training going on. I did, though, have the patience to <br \/> chase this <strong>Cardinal Meadowhawk <\/strong><strong><em>Sympetrum illotum<\/em><\/strong> for an hour until I <br \/> got close enough to him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" originalheight=\"480\" originalwidth=\"534\" name=\"\" title=\"Cardinal.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image5567aa0db4cc6.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\">Cardinal Meadowhawk <em>Sympetrum illotum <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae) Ken Vaughan<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"> <\/p>\n<p> <\/body> <\/html> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 May 28 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Aziza Cooper writes:&nbsp; This afternoon (May 27) I saw a few butterflies in the Garry Oak meadows of Summit Park. A Lorquin&#8217;s Admiral was a first-of-year for me. Also: &nbsp; Western Tiger Swallowtail -4 Cabbage White &#8211; 7 Painted Lady &#8211; 2 Western Spring Azure &#8211; 1 &nbsp; &nbsp; Jeremy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","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=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1706,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions\/1706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}