{"id":16490,"date":"2022-09-01T18:13:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T01:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16490"},"modified":"2022-09-01T18:17:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T01:17:20","slug":"2022-september-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16490","title":{"rendered":"2022 September 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 September 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>There are few butterflies around now &ndash; mostly Cabbage Whites and Woodland Skippers. Here&rsquo;s a <strong>Woodland Skipper<\/strong> photographed by Aziza Cooper at Fort Rodd Hill today, September 1.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/A-Woodland-Skipper-Ft-Rodd-1b.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Woodland Skipper <em>Ochlodes sylvanoides <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)&nbsp; Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Val George writes: Every morning for the past week there have been one or two &#8211; probably the same individuals &#8211; of these <strong><em>Drepanulatrix<\/em> <\/strong>moths on the wall of my Oak Bay house.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; <em>Drepanulatrix <\/em>is a difficult genus including several species for which the variation within a species sometimes seems to be greater than the variation between species.&nbsp; Libby Avis and Jeremy Tatum think that Val&rsquo;s moth most closely resembles <strong><em>D. secundaria.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Drepanulatrix-monicaria-Qu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"572\" height=\"455\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Drepanulatrix <\/em>(probably <em>secundaria<\/em>) (Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Val George<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 September 1 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; There are few butterflies around now &ndash; mostly Cabbage Whites and Woodland Skippers. Here&rsquo;s a Woodland Skipper photographed by Aziza Cooper at Fort Rodd Hill today, September 1. Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides (Lep.: Hesperiidae)&nbsp; Aziza Cooper &nbsp;&nbsp; Val George writes: Every morning for the past week there have been one or [&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-16490","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\/16490","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=16490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}