{"id":15451,"date":"2022-04-06T09:20:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T16:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15451"},"modified":"2022-04-06T17:35:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T00:35:39","slug":"2022-april-6-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15451","title":{"rendered":"2022 April 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 April 6<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Although, as an astronomer, I insist that Spring begins at the moment when the Sun crosses the equator, there are those who believe that Spring is marked by the first appearance of the Orangetip butterfly.\u00a0 In that case, Spring has arrived, for two were seen and reported yesterday from Mount Douglas Park:<\/p>\n<p>Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy writes:\u00a0 Despite the wind today, April 5th 2022, this was my first sighting of a <strong>Sara Orangetip<\/strong>.\u00a0 \u00a0It was seen at the top parking lot of Mount Douglas, attempting to nectar from dandelion.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And Val George writes:\u00a0 This afternoon, April 5, I saw my first <strong>Sara Orangetip<\/strong> (a male) of the season near the playground at Mount Douglas Park. At the same location, there was a <strong>Satyr Comma<\/strong>.<\/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\/2022\/04\/Sara-orangetip2a-1-of-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"691\" height=\"460\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sara Orangetip <em>Anthocharis sara <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Satyr-Comma-20.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"692\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Satyr Anglewing <em>Polygonia satyrus <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 April 6 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Although, as an astronomer, I insist that Spring begins at the moment when the Sun crosses the equator, there are those who believe that Spring is marked by the first appearance of the Orangetip butterfly.\u00a0 In that case, Spring has arrived, for two were seen and reported yesterday [&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-15451","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\/15451","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=15451"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15455,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15451\/revisions\/15455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}