{"id":10239,"date":"2020-04-07T09:37:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T16:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10239"},"modified":"2020-04-07T09:47:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T16:47:34","slug":"april-7-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10239","title":{"rendered":"April 7 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2020 April 7 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    <\/strong>Just heard from Annie Pang, who reports that she saw a Cabbage White <\/strong>from her house in The Gorge area about April 1 or 2.<\/p>\n

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   Yesterday, April 6, was the first warm (well, warmish – at least not cold) day we have had for a while, and I see that the InvertAlert inbox has several butterfly messages.<\/p>\n

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   Starting with one from myself,  Jeremy Tatum, I saw my first butterfly of the year at 5.00 pm, yesterday – a California Tortoiseshell <\/strong>on one of the whitish patches on the Mount Tolmie reservoir.  I’ll swear that they preferentially settle on these little whitish patches!<\/p>\n

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  Jeff Gaskin writes:  Kirsten Mills and I saw a comma<\/strong> species on Goldstream Heights Drive south of Trail Way on the Malahat.  Also, I saw my first Cabbage White<\/strong> near McKenzie Avenue and   Pat Bay Highway. And there were 2 California Tortoiseshells <\/strong>on Mount Tolmie at 4:05 p.m.   (Uh, oh, – looks as though Jeff and Kirsten beat me by an hour!  –  JT)<\/p>\n

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  Val George writes: T he sun brought out some butterflies this afternoon, April 6.  I saw my first Cabbage Whites<\/strong> of the season, one at Panama Flats and another near Mount Tolmie.  At the Mount Tolmie reservoir there were three California Tortoiseshells<\/strong>, presumably the ones that have been around there for the past few weeks [though last reported (2) on March 19 -JT].  (Beaten by Val, too!   JT.)<\/p>\n

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 Gordon Hart writes:  Things were waking up here (Highlands) today with the increase in temperature and sun. We had two butterflies today, Monday April 6, a Satyr Comma<\/strong>, and a California Tortoiseshell<\/strong>. Both were on a Pieris<\/em> which is in full flower right now and attracting both birds and insects. I have attached a couple of photos.<\/p>\n

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

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California Tortoiseshell  Nymphalis californica <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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2020 April 7 morning       Just heard from Annie Pang, who reports that she saw a Cabbage White from her house in The Gorge area about April 1 or 2.      Yesterday, April 6, was the first warm (well, warmish – at least not cold) day we have had for a while, and […]<\/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-10239","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\/10239","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=10239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}