{"id":16201,"date":"2022-08-08T21:21:52","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T04:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16201"},"modified":"2022-08-08T21:28:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T04:28:11","slug":"2022-august-8-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16201","title":{"rendered":"2022 August 8 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 August 8 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; This one was at my Saanich apartment this morning.&nbsp; Thanks to Libby Avis for identifying it as <strong><em>Oligia divesta.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/blacknwhite.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"294\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Oligia divesta <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jochen M&ouml;hr writes from Metchosin:&nbsp;&nbsp; <strong>Pine Whites<\/strong> are definitely here.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Yesterday, we had some Nature-Buff Friends over, and I asked them whether they had spotted any Pine Whites yet.&nbsp; The answer was negative.&nbsp;&nbsp; A few minutes later, we saw one fly past the front of the Douglas Firs here and flutter up the last one, and we both agreed that yes, it was a <strong>Pine White<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, I saw several here in our Douglas Firs, first two at about 11 a.m., then later at various hours one here, one there, always unmistakably and always for quite a while.&nbsp; And then, driving into Langford via Happy Valley Road at around 4 p.m., coming back around 5 p.m., I saw one each on the way in and the way out at Happy Valley Road, close to the intersection with Rocky Point Road.&nbsp;&nbsp;So yes, they are back!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>[Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; Kirsten Mills reported two on July 22.&nbsp; Jochen&rsquo;s report is the only one since then.]<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 August 8 evening &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; This one was at my Saanich apartment this morning.&nbsp; Thanks to Libby Avis for identifying it as Oligia divesta. &nbsp; Oligia divesta (Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum &nbsp;&nbsp; Jochen M&ouml;hr writes from Metchosin:&nbsp;&nbsp; Pine Whites are definitely here. &nbsp;&nbsp; Yesterday, we had some Nature-Buff Friends over, and I [&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-16201","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\/16201","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=16201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}