{"id":15252,"date":"2021-12-28T15:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T23:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15252"},"modified":"2021-12-28T15:30:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T23:30:07","slug":"2021-december-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15252","title":{"rendered":"2021 December 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 December 28<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Carl Hughes reports a female <strong>Cabbage White<\/strong> from his house in Royal Oak on Christmas Day.&nbsp; This reminds us that there were Cabbage Whites reported from Kemp Lake and from Highlands last winter (in January and March of this year).&nbsp; All three records were, unsurprisingly, indoor sightings.&nbsp; Cabbage Whites normally spend the winter in the pupal state, and the survival prospects of adults emerging in winter are not good.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; We presume this will be the last butterfly record of the year!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cabbage-white-december-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"686\" height=\"496\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Female Cabbage White <em>Pieris rapae <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)&nbsp; Carl Hughes<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 December 28 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Carl Hughes reports a female Cabbage White from his house in Royal Oak on Christmas Day.&nbsp; This reminds us that there were Cabbage Whites reported from Kemp Lake and from Highlands last winter (in January and March of this year).&nbsp; All three records were, unsurprisingly, indoor sightings.&nbsp; Cabbage Whites normally spend [&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-15252","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\/15252","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=15252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}