{"id":20085,"date":"2023-09-03T18:15:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T01:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=20085"},"modified":"2023-09-03T18:15:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T01:15:22","slug":"2023-september-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=20085","title":{"rendered":"2023 September 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2023 September 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>No sooner had I posted an announcement that the September Butterfly Walk was cancelled (after consultation with Gordon Hart) than, of course, the sun came out.\u00a0 And since I had posted the notice at the last minute, six people turned out anyway!\u00a0 We went to the Finnerty Gardens at UVic.\u00a0 The <em>Sedum major<\/em>, which is a great butterfly attractant, was out in full flower.\u00a0 There were hundreds of domestic animals (Honey Bees) on it, as well as a few Bald-faced Hornets and Yellow-faced Bumble Bees.\u00a0 And we saw a few pond skaters (Hem.: Gerridae) on a pond, but no butterflies at all!\u00a0 \u00a0All, however, seemed to enjoy the short walk and the company, so a good time was had by all.\u00a0 And it started to rain shortly after we went home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 September 3 \u00a0\u00a0 No sooner had I posted an announcement that the September Butterfly Walk was cancelled (after consultation with Gordon Hart) than, of course, the sun came out.\u00a0 And since I had posted the notice at the last minute, six people turned out anyway!\u00a0 We went to the Finnerty Gardens at UVic.\u00a0 The [&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-20085","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\/20085","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=20085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20086,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20085\/revisions\/20086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}