{"id":11509,"date":"2020-07-17T16:38:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T23:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11509"},"modified":"2021-05-27T09:13:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T16:13:23","slug":"july-17-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11509","title":{"rendered":"July 17 afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2020 July 17 afternoon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>From Gordon Hart:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hello Butterfly Watchers,<\/p>\n<p>The July Butterfly Count period starts Saturday July 18 until Sunday July 26. This is an informal census of butterfly numbers and species in Greater Victoria. The area is defined by the Christmas Bird Count circle, extending from Victoria to Brentwood Bay and Island View Road in Central Saanich, and west to Happy Valley and Triangle Mountain, and Langford Lake and Goldstream areas.<\/p>\n<p>You can submit a count any time over the count period, just use a separate form for each count and location. In the case of repeat or duplicate counts, I will use the higher numbers. To submit counts, please use the form from the VNHS website at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=33\">https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=33<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have difficulty with the form, just send me an email with the information.<\/p>\n<p>Thank-you for submitting your sightings and good luck with your count.<\/p>\n<p>-Gordon<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gordon Hart,<\/p>\n<p>Butterfly Count Coordinator,<\/p>\n<p>Victoria Natural History Society<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jody Wells photographed this paper wasp at Brentwood Bay yesterday.\u00a0 Thanks to Claudia Copley for identifying it as the <strong>Golden Paper Wasp <\/strong><strong><em>Polistes aurifer<\/em><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>The usual paper wasp we see here is the European <em>P. dominula <\/em>\u2013 but this one is native.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 541px; 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\/07\/pastedImage-145.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Golden Paper Wasp <em>Polistes aurifer <\/em>(Hym.: Vespidae)\u00a0 Jody Wells<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Here is a caterpillar of the <strong>Pale Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong> from Munn Road:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 349px; 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\/07\/pastedImage-146.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Pale Tiger Swallowtail <em>Papilio eurymedon<\/em> (Lep.: Papilionidae)<br \/>\nJeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 July 17 afternoon \u00a0 From Gordon Hart: \u00a0 Hello Butterfly Watchers, The July Butterfly Count period starts Saturday July 18 until Sunday July 26. This is an informal census of butterfly numbers and species in Greater Victoria. The area is defined by the Christmas Bird Count circle, extending from Victoria to Brentwood Bay and [&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-11509","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\/11509","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=11509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14071,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11509\/revisions\/14071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}