{"id":20063,"date":"2023-09-01T20:33:40","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T03:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=20063"},"modified":"2023-09-01T20:33:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T03:33:40","slug":"2023-september-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=20063","title":{"rendered":"2023 September 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2023 September 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>September Butterfly Walk<br \/>\nMessage from Gordon Hart<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hello, Butterfly Watchers,<\/p>\n<p>The last butterfly walk of the year is scheduled for Sunday, September 3. We meet at the top of Mount Tolmie by the reservoir, at 1.00 p.m. You can park in the parking lot there, or in the large lot north of the summit. After a look around the summit, we will decide on a destination from there.<\/p>\n<p>You can review Vancouver Island butterflies at Val George\u2019s website : <a href=\"https:\/\/vancouverislandbutterflies.com\/\">https:\/\/vancouverislandbutterflies.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The forecast has improved slightly since yesterday, so if it is mostly sunny at mid-day, the walk will likely go ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon Hart,<br \/>\nButterfly Count Coordinator<br \/>\nVictoria Natural History Society<br \/>\nGordon Hart<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:hartgordon19@gmail.com\">hartgordon19@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gordon sends a photograph of a <strong>Yellow Woolly Bear <\/strong>from Maber Flats today:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20065 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Spilosoma-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"541\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Spilosoma-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Spilosoma.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/>Yellow Woolly Bear <em>Spilosoma virginica<br \/>\n<\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Arctiinae)<br \/>\nGordon Hart<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum sends a photograph of <strong><em>Neoalcis californiaria<\/em> <\/strong>from his Saanich apartment today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20064 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_4722-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_4722-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_4722-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_4722-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_4722.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><em>Neoalcis californiaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy continues:\u00a0 I visited McIntyre reservoir this afternoon.\u00a0 I saw several <strong>Cabbage Whites, <\/strong>one <strong>Woodland Skipper<\/strong>, and one <strong><em>Autographa californica<\/em>.\u00a0 <\/strong>I also <u>thought<\/u> (not sure) that I briefly saw a <strong>sulphur <\/strong>butterfly.\u00a0 It might still be worth a look.\u00a0 (At 4 o\u2019clock there were no culicids.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 September 1 September Butterfly Walk Message from Gordon Hart Hello, Butterfly Watchers, The last butterfly walk of the year is scheduled for Sunday, September 3. We meet at the top of Mount Tolmie by the reservoir, at 1.00 p.m. You can park in the parking lot there, or in the large lot north of [&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-20063","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\/20063","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=20063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20066,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20063\/revisions\/20066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}