{"id":16862,"date":"2022-09-30T20:37:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T03:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16862"},"modified":"2022-10-07T17:01:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T00:01:00","slug":"2022-september-30-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16862","title":{"rendered":"2022 September 30 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 September 30 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An all-butterfly edition<\/p>\n<p><strong>Colias Alert!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, September 29, Marie Shaughnessy saw five <strong>sulphur<\/strong> butterflies.\u00a0 One, at Lamont Road in Central Saanich,, was described as bright orange yellow, and was therefore presumably an <strong>Orange Sulphur<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 The other four were at McIntyre reservoir, where Marie managed to get photographs of upper and undersides of two of them, and these seem to be male <strong>Clouded Sulphurs.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Orange-Sulpha2e.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"366\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Male Clouded Sulphur <em>Colias philodice <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Orange-Sulpha-2r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"416\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Male Clouded Sulphur <em>Colias philodice <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Orange-Sulpha2b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"618\" height=\"404\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Male Clouded Sulphur <em>Colias philodice <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Orange-Sulpha2m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Male Clouded Sulphur <em>Colias philodice <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Orange-Sulpha2a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"617\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Male Clouded Sulphur <em>Colias philodice <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Orange-Sulpha2t.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"398\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Male Clouded Sulphur <em>Colias philodice <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>The two <strong>Painted Ladies <\/strong>reportedfrom the top of Mount Tolmie on September 28 and 29 were still there in the evening of September 30, flying around the Jeffery Pine or resting on the road or on the summit.\u00a0 Although worn, they still fly well, chasing each other vigorously as if it were spring.\u00a0 Marie photographed the upperside and underside of one of them yesterday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Painted-Lady2a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"651\" height=\"434\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Painted Lady <em>Vanessa cardui <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\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\/09\/Painted-Lady.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"633\" height=\"431\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Painted Lady <em>Vanessa cardui <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The day following Ian Cooper\u2019s discovery of two Grey Hairstreak caterpillars (see yesterday\u2019s posting) , Jeremy Tatum spotted (at 4:30 pm) an adult <strong>Grey Hairstreak <\/strong>perching on, and flying around, an oak at the top of Christmas Hill.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cabbage Whites<\/strong> were seen at several locations today.\u00a0 Today is September 30.\u00a0 Are there butterflies to be seen in October?\u00a0\u00a0 Let us know!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More tomorrow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 September 30 evening An all-butterfly edition Colias Alert! Yesterday, September 29, Marie Shaughnessy saw five sulphur butterflies.\u00a0 One, at Lamont Road in Central Saanich,, was described as bright orange yellow, and was therefore presumably an Orange Sulphur.\u00a0\u00a0 The other four were at McIntyre reservoir, where Marie managed to get photographs of upper and undersides [&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-16862","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\/16862","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=16862"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16953,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16862\/revisions\/16953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}