{"id":13243,"date":"2021-02-09T17:54:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T01:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13243"},"modified":"2021-02-09T17:55:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T01:55:55","slug":"february-9-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13243","title":{"rendered":"February 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Rosemary Jorna writes from the Kemp Lake area:&nbsp; Does this one qualify for the first butterfly of 2021? It was on our kitchen counter today and has been trying to leave ever since.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Yes, writes Jeremy Tatum, it most certainly does.&nbsp; This is not one of the butterflies that overwinters in the adult state &#8211; it normally does so as a pupa.&nbsp; The pupa has presumably been indoors, and the butterfly ecloded (with a d) prematurely because   of the warmth.&nbsp; Yet it is often asserted that daylight length is at least as important as temperature in determining date of eclosion (with an s).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 539px; 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=\"539\" originalheight=\"407\" width=\"513.6\" height=\"387.8204081632653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/pastedImage-7.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cabbage White&nbsp; <em>Pieris rapae <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae) Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;   <\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 434px; 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=\"434\" originalheight=\"567\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/pastedImage-8.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cabbage White&nbsp; <em>Pieris rapae <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae) Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna writes from the Kemp Lake area:&nbsp; Does this one qualify for the first butterfly of 2021? It was on our kitchen counter today and has been trying to leave ever since.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Yes, writes Jeremy Tatum, it most certainly does.&nbsp; This is not one of the butterflies that overwinters in [&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-13243","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\/13243","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=13243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}