{"id":16684,"date":"2022-09-16T22:11:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-17T05:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16684"},"modified":"2022-09-17T21:04:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T04:04:19","slug":"2022-september-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16684","title":{"rendered":"2022 September 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 September 16<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Mike Yip writes:\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0With the temperature just barely 9\u00b0 C during a family visit to Paradise Meadows on Mount Washington, I had no expectations of seeing any butterflies, but to my surprise we saw three. The first was a <strong>Hydaspe Fritillary<\/strong> that I flushed off the boardwalk when I wasn&#8217;t paying attention;\u00a0 the second a fly-by <strong>Mourning Cloak;<\/strong> and the third a beautiful pre-hibernation <strong>Mourning Cloak<\/strong> in pristine, new generation colours basking on the boardwalk. The photo doesn&#8217;t do it justice as it was absolutely striking in the bright, filtered sunlight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/220916mtwash-287.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"522\" height=\"348\" \/>Mourning Cloak <em>Nymphalis antiopa <\/em>(Lep.:Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 September 16 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mike Yip writes:\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0With the temperature just barely 9\u00b0 C during a family visit to Paradise Meadows on Mount Washington, I had no expectations of seeing any butterflies, but to my surprise we saw three. The first was a Hydaspe Fritillary that I flushed off the boardwalk when I wasn&#8217;t paying [&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-16684","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\/16684","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=16684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16693,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16684\/revisions\/16693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}