{"id":13904,"date":"2021-05-03T08:12:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T15:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13904"},"modified":"2021-05-03T08:16:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T15:16:09","slug":"may-3-morning-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13904","title":{"rendered":"May 3 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 May 3 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Val George writes: I checked out Mount Tolmie for butterflies on May 2 and I saw just one, a rather worn  <strong>Mourning Cloak<\/strong> on the reservoir.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 516px; 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=\"516\" originalheight=\"344\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pastedImage-4.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mourning Cloak <em>Nymphalis antiopa <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)&nbsp; Val George<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; Although I sighed yesterday that no one had reported any butterflies in our area (southern Vancouver Island birdwatching area) in the last two days, and I hadn&#8217;t seen any myself, Peter Boon writes from Nanaimo: This weekend was good   for butterflies up here. May 1st had my first <strong>Pale Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong> fly through the yard and I also saw my first  <strong>Western Spring Azures<\/strong> in Nanoose at Cross Road. Yesterday,May&nbsp; 2<sup>nd<\/sup>,&nbsp; I saw a beautiful fresh  <strong>Western Brown Elfin<\/strong> in the yard.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 May 3 morning &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Val George writes: I checked out Mount Tolmie for butterflies on May 2 and I saw just one, a rather worn Mourning Cloak on the reservoir. &nbsp; Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa (Lep.: Nymphalidae)&nbsp; Val George &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; Although I sighed yesterday that no one had reported [&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-13904","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\/13904","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=13904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}