{"id":16518,"date":"2022-09-03T08:42:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T15:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16518"},"modified":"2022-09-05T08:03:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T15:03:58","slug":"2022-september-3-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16518","title":{"rendered":"2022 September 3 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 September 3 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>September Butterfly Walk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Message from Gordon Hart<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hello Butterfly Watchers,<\/p>\n<p>The last butterfly walk of the year is scheduled for Sunday, September 4. We meet at the top of Mount Tolmie by the reservoir, at 1.00 p.m. You can park in the parking lot there, or in the large lot north of the summit. After a look around the summit, we will decide on a destination from there.<\/p>\n<p>You can review Vancouver Island butterflies at Val George&#8217;s new website : <a href=\"https:\/\/vancouverislandbutterflies.com\/\">https:\/\/vancouverislandbutterflies.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Currently, the forecast does not look promising, but if it brightens up by midday, the walk will likely go ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon Hart,<\/p>\n<p>Butterfly Count Coordinator<\/p>\n<p>Victoria Natural History Society<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy photographed these two butterflies in Uplands Park in the last week of August.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Cabbage-Whitea4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"541\" height=\"387\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cabbage White <em>Pieris rapae <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Woodland-Skipper1a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"352\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Woodland Skipper <em>Ochlodes sylvanoides\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0 I was at McIntyre reservoir looking again for the Orange Sulphur yesterday, September 2nd.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t find it, but I did see a <strong>Common Green Darner<\/strong> and two<strong> Variegated Meadowhawks<\/strong>.\u00a0 The Darner was close to shore\u00a0on the reservoir while the two Meadowhawks were seen close together in the scrub that grows along the west side. The only other dragonflies I saw were a few <strong>Blue-eyed Darners<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>[Jeremy Tatum inserts:\u00a0 I was nearby on Martindale Road, where I saw a <strong>Black Saddlebags<\/strong>.]<\/p>\n<p>Jeff continues:\u00a0 I also counted the <strong>Cabbage Whites<\/strong> in the cabbage patch along Island View Road and came up with 120.\u00a0 There were also 3 or 4 <strong>Woodland Skippers<\/strong> at McIntyre reservoir.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff continues:\u00a0 Late on September 2, a <strong>Lorquin&#8217;s Admiral<\/strong> flew through my mother&#8217;s back yard while I was mowing the lawn. She lives in the Burnside\/Gorge neighbourhood.\u00a0 Also, Kirsten Mills just told me that she saw a <strong>Grey Hairstreak<\/strong> amongst the bedding plants outside Hillside Centre also September 2.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 September 3 morning September Butterfly Walk Message from Gordon Hart Hello Butterfly Watchers, The last butterfly walk of the year is scheduled for Sunday, September 4. We meet at the top of Mount Tolmie by the reservoir, at 1.00 p.m. You can park in the parking lot there, or in the large lot north [&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-16518","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\/16518","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=16518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16538,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16518\/revisions\/16538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}