{"id":13868,"date":"2021-04-27T15:26:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T22:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13868"},"modified":"2021-04-27T15:36:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T22:36:06","slug":"april-27-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13868","title":{"rendered":"April 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 April 27<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>After our recent hot spell, we are back to coolish wettish weather, and butterflies have become scarce again.&nbsp; Thus Rosemary Jorna saw only one butterfly during a five-hour hike in the Sooke Hills yesterday.&nbsp; It was her first-of-the-year  <strong>Western Spring Azure<\/strong>, at Stone Pipe near Mary Vine Creek:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 563px; 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=\"563\" originalheight=\"389\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" setheight=\"389\" setwidth=\"563\" hasheight=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/pastedImage-117.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Western Spring Azure <em>Celastrina echo <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Same with moths &#8211; Jochen M\u00f6hr had only one moth at his Metchosin home this morning &#8211;  <strong><em>Venusia<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>&nbsp; <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>obsoleta\/pearsalli<\/em><\/strong>:<\/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_image004.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"429\" width=\"597.6\" height=\"410.85\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/pastedImage-118.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Venusia<\/em> <em>obsoleta\/pearsalli <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 April 27 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; After our recent hot spell, we are back to coolish wettish weather, and butterflies have become scarce again.&nbsp; Thus Rosemary Jorna saw only one butterfly during a five-hour hike in the Sooke Hills yesterday.&nbsp; It was her first-of-the-year Western Spring Azure, at Stone Pipe near Mary Vine Creek: &nbsp; Western [&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-13868","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\/13868","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=13868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}