{"id":17704,"date":"2023-03-18T20:36:53","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T03:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=17704"},"modified":"2023-04-06T14:59:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T21:59:28","slug":"2023-march18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=17704","title":{"rendered":"2023 March18"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a02023 March 18<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0Butterflies Galore!\u00a0\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n

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\u00a0Mourning Cloaks:\u00a0\u00a0 <\/b>March 17 \u2013 one at Viaduct Flats, Don Kramer.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 March 18 –\u00a0 one at Gorge Road and Dunedin, Thomas Barbin;\u00a0 \u00a0three at Swan Lake,\u00a0 Jeff Gaskin<\/p>\n

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California Tortoiseshells:<\/b> \u00a0 March 18 \u2013 one at Amy Road, Langford,1:30 pm. Robin Robinson;\u00a0 \u00a0 one on Mount Tolmie Reservoir, 4:15 pm. Jeremy Tatum.<\/p>\n

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Cabbage White:\u00a0 <\/b>March 18 \u2013\u00a0 one, Panama Flats,\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n

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The only butterflies reported earlier this year to Invert Alert were single Mourning Cloaks on February 21 and March 15.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Some moths have also been reported:\u00a0 Jochen Moehr reported and photographed a Eupithecia <\/b><\/i>ravocostaliata\/nevadata <\/i><\/b>in Metchosin\u00a0 (Sorry, Jochen \u2013 my new computer is resisting my attempts to do an umlaut!); Libby Avis sighted a Xylena nupera<\/span><\/i><\/b> and an <\/span>Orthosia praeses <\/span><\/i><\/b>in Part Alberni; and Val George photographed a Hydriomena nubilofasciata <\/i><\/b>at his home in Oak Bay.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Eupithecia ravocostaliata\/nevadata <\/i>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Hydriomena nubilofasciata <\/i>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n

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\u00a02023 March 18   \u00a0Butterflies Galore!\u00a0\u00a0   \u00a0Mourning Cloaks:\u00a0\u00a0 March 17 \u2013 one at Viaduct Flats, Don Kramer.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 March 18 –\u00a0 one at Gorge Road and Dunedin, Thomas Barbin;\u00a0 \u00a0three at Swan Lake,\u00a0 Jeff Gaskin   California Tortoiseshells: \u00a0 March 18 \u2013 one at Amy Road, Langford,1:30 pm. Robin Robinson;\u00a0 \u00a0 one on Mount Tolmie […]<\/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-17704","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\/17704","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=17704"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17815,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17704\/revisions\/17815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}