{"id":14658,"date":"2021-07-31T17:11:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T00:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14658"},"modified":"2021-11-08T16:13:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T00:13:16","slug":"2021-july-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14658","title":{"rendered":"2021 July 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 July 31<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Gordon Hart writes:\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A reminder that the VNHS <strong>August Butterfly Walk<\/strong> will take place on Sunday, August 1, as described in the VNHS calendar. We will meet at 1 p.m. by the reservoir near the Mount Tolmie summit, where we will decide on a destination. Royal Roads has been suggested where we could find several species around the grounds and in the gardens.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To which Jeremy Tatum adds:\u00a0 This summer we haven\u2019t usually had to bother with adding the proviso that a butterfly walk requires sunny weather.\u00a0 Today, however, we have seen some unaccustomed clouds and even a little rain, so it is best to be reminded that, if it is cloudy and raining, the butterfly walk will be off!\u00a0 I\u2019ll go up to Mount Tolmie at 1:00 pm anyway.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jochen M\u00f6hr\u2019s moths from Metchosin this morning.\u00a0 The third one is a little bit worn, so we can&#8217;t be quite certain of the identification.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Allucita-montana-P1660488.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"466\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Alucita montana <\/em>(Lep.: Alucitidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Idea-dimidiata-P1660475.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"659\" height=\"398\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Idaea dimidiata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Protitame-subalbaria-P1660487.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"478\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Possibly <em>Protitame subalbaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Earlier this year I mentioned that a care home in Victoria had obtained two dozen commercially-reared caterpillars of the<strong> Painted Lady<\/strong>, feeding on something that looked a bit like mashed potato. Most of these successfully produced adult butterflies and were duly released.\u00a0 Viewers may have noticed an article in today&#8217;s (July 31) <em>Times-Colonist<\/em>, page A4, saying that 1000 Painted Ladies had been released at 24 care homes across BC, including one in Sidney, apparently in honour of Covid-19 victims.\u00a0 These butterflies had apparently been shipped, as adults, from a firm in Edmonton that raises them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 July 31 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Hart writes:\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A reminder that the VNHS August Butterfly Walk will take place on Sunday, August 1, as described in the VNHS calendar. We will meet at 1 p.m. by the reservoir near the Mount Tolmie summit, where we will decide on a destination. Royal Roads has been suggested where [&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-14658","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\/14658","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=14658"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15166,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14658\/revisions\/15166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}