{"id":20986,"date":"2024-03-18T18:54:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T01:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=20986"},"modified":"2024-03-18T18:54:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T01:54:38","slug":"2024-march-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=20986","title":{"rendered":"2024 March 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2024 March 18<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Yesterday, Kirsten Mills photographed two of the <strong>California Tortoiseshells <\/strong>that were (and still are) on the Mount Tolmie reservoir.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20983 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/DSCN41991-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"591\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/DSCN41991-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/DSCN41991-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/DSCN41991-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/DSCN41991.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\" \/>California Tortoiseshell <em>Nymphalis californica <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20982 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/DSCN41951-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"582\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/DSCN41951-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/DSCN41951-1024x773.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/DSCN41951.jpg 1175w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" \/>California Tortoiseshell <em>Nymphalis californica <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kirsten writes:\u00a0 I saw two new butterfly species today, March 18, for the year for me. First was a <strong>Satyr Comma<\/strong> near Hyacinth Park. The second was a <strong>Cabbage White<\/strong> on the corner of Cook Street and Finlayson Road.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gordon Hart writes, from Highlands:\u00a0 We have had two <strong>Green Commas<\/strong> and one <strong>Satyr Comma<\/strong> since Saturday March 16. I have attached pictures which nicely show some differences between the species.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20981 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Satyr-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"549\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Satyr-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Satyr-1024x759.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Satyr-768x569.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Satyr.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/>Satyr Comma <em>Polygonia satyrus\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20985 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Green-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Green-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Green-1024x825.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Green-768x619.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Green.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/>Green Comma <em>Polygonia faunus\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20984 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Green-ventral-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"573\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Green-ventral-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Green-ventral-1024x815.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Green-ventral-768x611.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Green-ventral.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\" \/>Green Comma <em>Polygonia faunus\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 March 18 \u00a0\u00a0 Yesterday, Kirsten Mills photographed two of the California Tortoiseshells that were (and still are) on the Mount Tolmie reservoir. &nbsp; California Tortoiseshell Nymphalis californica (Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Kirsten Mills California Tortoiseshell Nymphalis californica (Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Kirsten Mills &nbsp; Kirsten writes:\u00a0 I saw two new butterfly species today, March 18, for the year [&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-20986","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\/20986","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=20986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20988,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20986\/revisions\/20988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}