{"id":14926,"date":"2021-09-13T17:24:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T00:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14926"},"modified":"2021-09-17T14:09:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T21:09:18","slug":"2021-september-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14926","title":{"rendered":"2021 September 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 September 13<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Here is a <strong>Mint Moth <\/strong>from the garden of my Saanich apartment building this morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Mint-Moth-Pyrausta-californicalis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"681\" height=\"558\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Pyrausta californicalis <\/em>(Lep.: Crambidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Liam Singh reports an <strong>American Lady<\/strong> hilltopping on Christmas Hill in the late afternoon of September 12.\u00a0 This is the second sighting of the species this year (see August 26 Invert Alert for August 25 photograph on Mount Douglas). \u00a0At 4:00 pm today, September 13, Nyjal Singh tells us that there were at least three ladies at the top of Christmas Hill.\u00a0 One of them is certainly an American Lady; the other two are probably also American Ladies.\u00a0 Nyjal has photographs of some these. Liam tells us that Rebecca Reader-Lee found and photographed another <strong>American Lady<\/strong> at Rocky Point yesterday, September 12. \u00a0\u00a0We hope to post some photographs tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Viewers who visit Christmas Hill to see these butterflies will probably want to keep their eyes open for a Horned Lark that has been there today.<\/p>\n<p>There have been sightings of <strong>American Lady<\/strong> for each year from 2017 to 2021 inclusive.\u00a0 There have been no reports of <strong>West Coast Lady<\/strong> so far this year, and none in 2020.\u00a0 Thus it appears that in recent years the American Lady is commoner than the West Coast Lady.<\/p>\n<p>It would be worth checking some other hilltops in the late afternoon.\u00a0 I tried Mount Tolmie without luck.\u00a0 Mount Douglas and Highrock Park should also be checked.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 September 13 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Here is a Mint Moth from the garden of my Saanich apartment building this morning. \u00a0 Pyrausta californicalis (Lep.: Crambidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum &nbsp; Liam Singh reports an American Lady hilltopping on Christmas Hill in the late afternoon of September 12.\u00a0 This is the second sighting of the species [&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-14926","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\/14926","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=14926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14945,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14926\/revisions\/14945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}