{"id":20975,"date":"2024-03-17T18:32:18","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T01:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=20975"},"modified":"2024-03-17T18:32:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T01:32:18","slug":"2024-march-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=20975","title":{"rendered":"2024 March 17"},"content":{"rendered":"

2024 March 17<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>These sunny days are bringing out lots of nymphalid butterflies.\u00a0 On March 17, Aziza Cooper reported a Satyr Comma <\/strong>and two Mourning Cloaks a<\/strong>t Swan Lake, and Kirsten Mills reported three Mourning Cloaks <\/strong>and three California Tortoiseshells<\/strong> at the Mount Tolmie reservoir, one of each also seen by Val George.\u00a0\u00a0 We also hear of a Milbert\u2019s Tortoiseshell <\/strong>seen by Geoffrey Newell along the cliff at Clover Point on March 16.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a selection of photographs of some of these butterflies.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n

\"\"Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 \u00a0Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 \u00a0Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Satyr Comma Polygonia satyrus\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Satyr Comma Polygonia satyrus\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"California Tortoiseshell Nymphalis californica\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n

Yesterday, March 16, Jochen M\u00f6hr photographed these two moths at his Metchosin house:<\/p>\n

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\"\"Probably Orthosia praeses\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

\"\" Eupithecia ravocostaliata<\/em> (Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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2024 March 17 \u00a0\u00a0 These sunny days are bringing out lots of nymphalid butterflies.\u00a0 On March 17, Aziza Cooper reported a Satyr Comma and two Mourning Cloaks at Swan Lake, and Kirsten Mills reported three Mourning Cloaks and three California Tortoiseshells at the Mount Tolmie reservoir, one of each also seen by Val George.\u00a0\u00a0 We […]<\/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-20975","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\/20975","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=20975"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20977,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20975\/revisions\/20977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}