{"id":21224,"date":"2024-04-11T19:21:54","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T02:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21224"},"modified":"2024-04-11T19:21:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T02:21:54","slug":"2024-april-11-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21224","title":{"rendered":"2024 April 11 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2024 April 11 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Monthly Butterfly Counts.\u00a0 <\/strong>As mentioned in previous postings on this site, Gordon Hart wishes to retire as organizer of these Counts.\u00a0 As yet, no one has volunteered to take over as organizer and so, unless there is a last-minute volunteer, <strong>there will be no Monthly Butterfly Counts this year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>The Monthly Butterfly <u>Walks<\/u> will continue as usual, starting in May.\u00a0 For details see the <em>Victoria Naturalist<\/em>, and look also for notices on this Invert Alert site.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gordon Hart reports that on Wednesday, April 10, he saw his first <strong>Western Spring Azures<\/strong> (two), and a <strong>Mourning Cloak<\/strong> at his Highlands home.<\/p>\n<p>Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy writes that she was pleasantly surprised to see five of these bright, \u00a0colourful, \u00a0mostly \u00a0white \u00a0<strong>Sara Orangetip <\/strong>butterflies \u00a0between \u00a02- 3 \u00a0o\u2019clock off the main parking lot at the top of Mount Douglas, April 9th.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21223 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2W1A3949-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2W1A3949-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2W1A3949-2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/>Male Sara Orangetip <em>Anthocharis sara<\/em> (Lep.: Pieridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21222 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2W1A3933-1-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"573\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2W1A3933-1-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2W1A3933-1.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\" \/>Male Sara Orangetip <em>Anthocharis sara<\/em> (Lep.: Pieridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 April 11 evening \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Monthly Butterfly Counts.\u00a0 As mentioned in previous postings on this site, Gordon Hart wishes to retire as organizer of these Counts.\u00a0 As yet, no one has volunteered to take over as organizer and so, unless there is a last-minute volunteer, there will be no Monthly Butterfly Counts this year. \u00a0 [&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-21224","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\/21224","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=21224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21226,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21224\/revisions\/21226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}