{"id":14844,"date":"2021-08-31T16:51:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T23:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14844"},"modified":"2021-08-31T16:58:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T23:58:22","slug":"2021-august-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14844","title":{"rendered":"2021 August 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 August 21<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I met Gerry and Wendy Ansell at McIntyre Reservoir (Central Saanich) today and they reported that they had seen two <strong>Purplish Coppers<\/strong> there, and sure enough I found one myself shortly after.&nbsp; They appear to be nectaring on the daisy-like flowers of the Scentless Mayweed, which I erroneously referred to as Ox-eye Daisies in&nbsp; yesterday&rsquo;s Invert Alert.&nbsp;&nbsp; There were also a (very) few <strong>Cabbage Whites <\/strong>and <strong>Woodland Skippers <\/strong>in the area.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeff Gaskin writes:&nbsp; This morning, August 31, before the clouds rolled in, I saw a <strong>Lorquin&#8217;s Admiral<\/strong> just in front of the nature house at Swan Lake.&nbsp; It must be getting a bit late for them.&nbsp;&nbsp; [Yes it is getting a little late, writes Jeremy Tatum, although they are occasionally seen in September.]<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 August 21 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I met Gerry and Wendy Ansell at McIntyre Reservoir (Central Saanich) today and they reported that they had seen two Purplish Coppers there, and sure enough I found one myself shortly after.&nbsp; They appear to be nectaring on the daisy-like flowers of the Scentless Mayweed, which I erroneously [&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-14844","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\/14844","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=14844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}