{"id":15257,"date":"2021-12-29T11:24:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T19:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15257"},"modified":"2021-12-29T11:27:23","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T19:27:23","slug":"2021-december-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15257","title":{"rendered":"2021 December 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 December 29<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>On December 21, Gordon Hart found a chrysalis of a <strong>Tiger Swallowtail <\/strong>&nbsp;(we can&#8217;t tell whether it is Western or Pale) at his Highlands home.&nbsp; The silken pad in which it has embedded its cremaster is on a tiny fragment of bark which has become detached from the twig, so that the chrysalis is hanging awkwardly from its waist girdle.&nbsp; Gordon is investigating the possibility of re-attaching the fragment to the twig so that the butterfly can eclode safely.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Chrysalis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"693\" height=\"722\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Tiger Swallowtail <em>Papilio <\/em>sp. (Lep.: Papilionidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 December 29 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; On December 21, Gordon Hart found a chrysalis of a Tiger Swallowtail &nbsp;(we can&#8217;t tell whether it is Western or Pale) at his Highlands home.&nbsp; The silken pad in which it has embedded its cremaster is on a tiny fragment of bark which has become detached from the twig, so that [&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-15257","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\/15257","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=15257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}