{"id":14657,"date":"2021-07-30T17:43:33","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T00:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14657"},"modified":"2021-07-30T17:46:02","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T00:46:02","slug":"2021-july-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14657","title":{"rendered":"2021 July 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 July 30<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>The <strong>VNHS August Butterfly Walk <\/strong>will take place on Sunday August 1.&nbsp; Meet at the top of Mount Tolmie at 1:00 pm.&nbsp; After a brief look around there, we will decide where to go.&nbsp; Royal Roads University has been suggested &ndash; there are good numbers of <strong>Pine Whites <\/strong>to be seen there.&nbsp; A few of them are coming down low for nectar, allowing good looks.&nbsp; The males and females are different in appearance, so you get two for one, so to speak.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>There don&rsquo;t seem to be huge numbers of other butterflies around just now in this hot weather.&nbsp; However, there are a few good ones still flying. &nbsp;Jeff Gaskin writes:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In case Kirsten Mills hasn&#8217;t told you already, she found a <strong>Milbert&#8217;s Tortoiseshell<\/strong> at the corner of Richmond Avenue&nbsp;and Cedar Hill Cross Road yesterday afternoon, July 29.&nbsp; I saw a rather late <strong>Western<\/strong> <strong>Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong> in Finnerty Gardens on a Buddleia bush today, July 30.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 July 30 &nbsp;&nbsp; The VNHS August Butterfly Walk will take place on Sunday August 1.&nbsp; Meet at the top of Mount Tolmie at 1:00 pm.&nbsp; After a brief look around there, we will decide where to go.&nbsp; Royal Roads University has been suggested &ndash; there are good numbers of Pine Whites to be seen [&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-14657","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\/14657","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=14657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}