{"id":19307,"date":"2023-07-12T19:59:42","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T02:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19307"},"modified":"2023-07-12T20:00:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T03:00:42","slug":"2023-july-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19307","title":{"rendered":"2023 July 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2023 July 12<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Gordon Hart writes:\u00a0\u00a0 While <strong>Swallowtails <\/strong>and <strong>Lorquin\u2019s Admirals<\/strong> continue, I saw my first of the year <strong>Woodland Skippers<\/strong> on Monday July 10, nectaring on Lavender. I believe this one is a male. [Gordon has noticed the androconia sex brand as well as the costal fold.]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19305 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Woodland-Skipper1-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"557\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Woodland-Skipper1-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Woodland-Skipper1.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/>Woodland Skipper <em>Ochlodes sylvanoides <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)<br \/>\nGordon Hart<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum shows two chrysalids:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19303 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4682-257x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"548\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4682-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4682-877x1024.jpg 877w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4682-768x897.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4682.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/>Red Admiral <em>Vanessa atalanta\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19304 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4683-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4683-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4683-822x1024.jpg 822w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4683-768x957.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4683.jpg 963w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Mourning Cloak <em>Nymphalis antiopa <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChrysalis\u201d is the informal word we use for the pupa of a butterfly (not so often of a moth).\u00a0 What is the plural of chrysalis?\u00a0 You have three choices.\u00a0 It is perfectly OK to use the normal English way of forming a plural: chrysalises.\u00a0 Or you may use the Greek plural:\u00a0 chrysalides\u00a0 (four syllables, stress on the second.)\u00a0 This is often used in writing, though I don\u2019t often hear this version spoken.\u00a0 The most usual plural used by butterfly enthusiasts (and the one I usually use) is chrysalids.\u00a0 This isn\u2019t quite English or quite Greek, and probably has little etymological justification \u2013 but it seems to have established itself as the usual spoken version.\u00a0 There is no such word as chrysalid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 July 12 \u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Hart writes:\u00a0\u00a0 While Swallowtails and Lorquin\u2019s Admirals continue, I saw my first of the year Woodland Skippers on Monday July 10, nectaring on Lavender. I believe this one is a male. [Gordon has noticed the androconia sex brand as well as the costal fold.] &nbsp; Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides (Lep.: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19307","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\/19307","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19307"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19310,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19307\/revisions\/19310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}