{"id":12127,"date":"2020-09-04T17:28:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T00:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12127"},"modified":"2020-09-04T17:36:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T00:36:55","slug":"september-4-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12127","title":{"rendered":"September 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2020 September 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>It has been a poor butterfly year, and there are almost none now in September, apart from a few  <strong>Cabbage Whites.<\/strong><strong>&nbsp; <\/strong>I say &#8220;almost&#8221; none, for there are still a very few around. &nbsp;Thus Jochen M\u00f6hr saw five  <strong>Pine Whites <\/strong>simultaneously from his Metchosin property yesterday, as well as a  <strong>Mourning Cloak<\/strong>, and Gordon Hart briefly saw a comma-like butterfly in his Highlands property, which, frustratingly, did not stay long enough to be identified.&nbsp; He thought it was a little larger that a Green or Satyr Comma.&nbsp; He also saw there   a <strong>Cabbage White <\/strong>and a <strong>Woodland Skipper<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Here is a male <strong>Pine White <\/strong>from Jochen&#8217;s property this morning.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"468\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pastedImage-6.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Pine White <em>Neophasia menapia <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr&#8217;s moths from Metchosin this morning:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Euxos difformis <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Feltia&nbsp;jaculifera<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Nemoria&nbsp;darwiniata <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>3 Neoalcis californiaria&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Xestia finatimis <\/em><\/strong><strong>complex <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"344\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pastedImage-7.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Neoalcis californiaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"420\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pastedImage-8.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Neoalcis californiaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 405px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"405\" originalheight=\"540\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pastedImage-9.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Xestia xanthographa <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 452px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image010.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"452\" originalheight=\"472\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pastedImage-10.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Nemoria darwiniata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; At his Highlands property on September 2 , Gordon Hart saw&nbsp; <strong>2 <\/strong>  <strong><em>Neoalcis californiaria<\/em><\/strong> and two <strong><em>Xanthorhoe <\/em>  <\/strong><strong>sp. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 September 4 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; It has been a poor butterfly year, and there are almost none now in September, apart from a few Cabbage Whites.&nbsp; I say &#8220;almost&#8221; none, for there are still a very few around. &nbsp;Thus Jochen M\u00f6hr saw five Pine Whites simultaneously from his Metchosin property yesterday, as well as a [&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-12127","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\/12127","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=12127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}