{"id":21003,"date":"2024-03-20T20:18:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T03:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21003"},"modified":"2024-03-20T20:18:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T03:18:03","slug":"2024-march-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21003","title":{"rendered":"2024 March 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2024 March 20<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Happy Nowruz, everyone!<\/p>\n<p>Now that Spring is here, insects are starting to stir, although this syrphid fly photographed yesterday by Aziza Cooper seems to have had a chilly night, for it is covered with dew.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21002 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/D-Insect-Salsbury-Way-1b-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/D-Insect-Salsbury-Way-1b-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/D-Insect-Salsbury-Way-1b.jpg 644w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/>Hover fly (Dip.: Syrphidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jochen M\u00f6hr was wondering why we seem to have more butterflies here in suburban Victoria than he sees in the wilds of Metchosin.\u00a0 We are glad to hear, therefore, that on March 19 Jochen at last saw his first <strong>Mourning Cloak <\/strong>of the year on William Head Road.\u00a0 Unfortunately much too briefly even to attempt\u00a0to photograph it.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Well, I haven\u2019t seen a Mourning Cloak yet this year \u2013 so Metchosin can\u2019t be all that bad!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 March 20 \u00a0\u00a0 Happy Nowruz, everyone! Now that Spring is here, insects are starting to stir, although this syrphid fly photographed yesterday by Aziza Cooper seems to have had a chilly night, for it is covered with dew. &nbsp; Hover fly (Dip.: Syrphidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper &nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr was wondering why we seem to [&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-21003","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\/21003","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=21003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21004,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21003\/revisions\/21004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}