{"id":12833,"date":"2020-11-25T15:53:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T23:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12833"},"modified":"2020-11-25T16:09:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T00:09:24","slug":"november-25-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12833","title":{"rendered":"November 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2020 November 25<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>Amazing butterfly sighting! <\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0 from Mr E, behind Red Barn Grocers in Oak Bay today, November 25.\u00a0\u00a0 On the very rare occasions that <strong>Monarch<\/strong>s appear here, we are never sure of their provenance \u2013 are they genuine wild butterflies, or have they been released at a wedding or something?\u00a0\u00a0 Probably at least some of them are wild, but at this time of year, when western populations of Monarchs would be expected to be wintering in California, the provenance of this Oak Bay specimen must be at least slightly suspect!\u00a0 There is some information about commercially-reared Monarchs in an article by Annie Pang in the November-December 2011 issue of the <em>Victoria Naturalist.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pastedImage-93.png\" width=\"513.6\" height=\"464.808\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Monarch Butterfly <em>Danaus plexippus <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae \u2013 Danainae)\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 November 25 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Amazing butterfly sighting! &#8211;\u00a0 from Mr E, behind Red Barn Grocers in Oak Bay today, November 25.\u00a0\u00a0 On the very rare occasions that Monarchs appear here, we are never sure of their provenance \u2013 are they genuine wild butterflies, or have they been released at a wedding or something?\u00a0\u00a0 Probably [&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-12833","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\/12833","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=12833"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12836,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12833\/revisions\/12836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}