{"id":12293,"date":"2020-09-21T10:06:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T17:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12293"},"modified":"2020-09-21T10:16:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T17:16:31","slug":"september-21-morning-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12293","title":{"rendered":"September 21 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2020 September 21 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong><strong>Colias Alert!<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Mike McGrenere writes:&nbsp; Barb and I were at McIntyre Reservoir yesterday afternoon when Barb spotted a yellow butterfly in among the many cabbage whites. I was able to get some photos and   have attached two. &nbsp;Although we did not see any orange on the butterfly, it does have the row of dark spots on the wing. We  <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">think<\/span> this is an <strong>Orange Sulphur<\/strong>. It was in weedy patch in the NW corner of the reservoir.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; Is this an Orange Sulphur or a Clouded Sulphur?&nbsp;&nbsp; Opinions (with reasons!) welcome.&nbsp; Better still, go and have a look.&nbsp; Last time we had an Orange Sulphur invasion we noticed a few that were paler than most and didn&#8217;t seem very orange.&nbsp;   I confidently (?) announced that they were probably female Orange Sulphurs, but ever since then I have had bad twinges of conscience and I have been wondering whether the pale ones were really Clouded Sulphurs.&nbsp; Now we have another chance to find out.    <\/p>\n<p>&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=\"420\" width=\"512.8\" height=\"345.15384615384613\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pastedImage-111.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sulphur <em>Colias <\/em>sp. (Lep.: Pieridae)&nbsp; Mike McGrenere<\/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_image004.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"473\" width=\"512.8\" height=\"388.70897435897433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pastedImage-112.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sulphur <em>Colias <\/em>sp. (Lep.: Pieridae)&nbsp; Mike McGrenere  <\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 September 21 morning &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Colias Alert!&nbsp;&nbsp; Mike McGrenere writes:&nbsp; Barb and I were at McIntyre Reservoir yesterday afternoon when Barb spotted a yellow butterfly in among the many cabbage whites. I was able to get some photos and have attached two. &nbsp;Although we did not see any orange on the butterfly, it does [&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-12293","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\/12293","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=12293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}