{"id":10142,"date":"2020-03-21T18:45:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T01:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10142"},"modified":"2020-03-22T16:10:12","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T23:10:12","slug":"march-21-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10142","title":{"rendered":"March 21 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2020 March 21 evening<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Gordon Hart writes:\u00a0 \u00a0We got home from a walk in the early afternoon, March 20, and a <strong>Satyr Comma<\/strong> was on the Heather. \u00a0And\u00a0 I finally photographed a <strong> California Tortoiseshell<\/strong> on some <em>Pieris<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 [Jeremy Tatum remarks: \u00a0In case anyone is wondering, Gordon is referring to a common garden shrub (Ericaceae) which bears the genus name <em>Pieris <\/em>\u2013 not closely related to the Cabbage White butterfly, which is also <em>Pieris<\/em>!]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0 March 20, Kirsten Mills and I found no fewer than <strong> 3 California Tortoiseshells<\/strong> by the concrete reservoir on Mount Tolmie, and there may even have been 4 there.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ron Flower writes:\u00a0 today Saturday 21st. we went to the Goldstream River around noon and saw 4 individual<strong> comma<\/strong><strong>s.<\/strong> I think <strong>Satyr<\/strong> but not\u00a0sure.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure either!\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019ll label them just comma for the moment, but I\u2019ll try and be more definite tomorrow (March 22).\u00a0 Ron continues:\u00a0 We also saw two <strong>Mourning Cloaks <\/strong>there.<\/p>\n<p>Added on March 22:\u00a0 Gordon Hart writes, concerning the commas:\u00a0They are rather hard to tell, but I think they are<em><strong> satyrus<\/strong><\/em>. Green Commas are smaller and darker overall, so often a bit easier to distinguish in life. Even though the light spots are on the dark marginal band, they are usually darker and more distinct in <em>P. faunus<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 623px; 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\/2020\/03\/pastedImage-67.png\" width=\"568.8\" height=\"461.23846153846154\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Comma <em>Polygonia <\/em>(probably <em>satyrus<\/em>).\u00a0 (Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Ron Flower<\/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;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/pastedImage-68.png\" width=\"568.8\" height=\"356.41153846153844\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Comma <em>Polygonia\u00a0<\/em>(probably <em>satyrus)<\/em>\u00a0 (Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Ron Flower<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 623px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/pastedImage-69.png\" width=\"568.8\" height=\"432.9807692307692\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mourning Cloak <em>Nymphalis antiopa <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Ron Flower<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Today I went to Swan Lake, Blenkinsop Lake and Mount Tolmie, and I still haven\u2019t seen my first butterfly of the year!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 March 21 evening \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Hart writes:\u00a0 \u00a0We got home from a walk in the early afternoon, March 20, and a Satyr Comma was on the Heather. \u00a0And\u00a0 I finally photographed a California Tortoiseshell on some Pieris.\u00a0\u00a0 [Jeremy Tatum remarks: \u00a0In case anyone is wondering, Gordon is referring to a common garden shrub [&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-10142","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\/10142","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=10142"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10149,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10142\/revisions\/10149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}