{"id":17575,"date":"2023-02-22T21:44:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T05:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=17575"},"modified":"2023-02-22T21:52:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T05:52:53","slug":"2023-february-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=17575","title":{"rendered":"2023 February 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\"><b>2023 February 22<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\"><b>Butterfly!<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\"><b>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/b>Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0\u00a0 I know you probably think it&#8217;s too cold for butterflies, but yesterday, February 21, Bill Dancer reported that he saw a <b>Mourning Cloak<\/b> on the lower regions of Mount Douglas Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I do know that it\u2019s too cold for me.\u00a0 Mourning Cloaks, however, spend the winter in the adult stage, and February sightings are quite possible \u2013 though rare and exciting nevertheless.\u00a0 Since this site was started in 2010, we have had February sightings in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2022, the earliest date being 2015 February 17.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 February 22 \u00a0 Butterfly! \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0\u00a0 I know you probably think it&#8217;s too cold for butterflies, but yesterday, February 21, Bill Dancer reported that he saw a Mourning Cloak on the lower regions of Mount Douglas Park. \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I do know that it\u2019s too cold for me.\u00a0 Mourning [&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-17575","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\/17575","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=17575"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17579,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17575\/revisions\/17579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}