{"id":21248,"date":"2024-04-14T08:26:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T15:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21248"},"modified":"2024-04-14T08:26:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T15:26:53","slug":"2024-april-14-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21248","title":{"rendered":"2024 April 14 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2024 April 14 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy writes:\u00a0 On April 13 I went up to Mount Douglas at 3:00 pm and saw three <strong>Sara<\/strong> <strong>Orangetips<\/strong>, but they\u00a0weren\u2019t putting down at all. \u00a0Very active and long gaps between sightings.<\/p>\n<p>I had better luck at 5:30 pm at Mount Tolmie. When I arrived, there was one very worn <strong>California\u00a0Tortoiseshell<\/strong> on the pathway outside the reservoir railings and a <strong>Western Spring<\/strong> <strong>Azure<\/strong>\u00a0resting or\u00a0nectaring on the Oregon Grape flowers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21245 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2W1A4294-2-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"596\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2W1A4294-2-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2W1A4294-2.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/>California Tortoiseshell <em>Nymphalis californica <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)<br \/>\nMarie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21246 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2W1A4297-1-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"629\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2W1A4297-1-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2W1A4297-1.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/>Western Spring Azure <em>Celastrina echo\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)<br \/>\nMarie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum found this woodling moth on the wall of his apartment building in Saanich this morning, April 14:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21247 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_4782-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_4782-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_4782-1024x619.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_4782-768x464.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_4782.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><em>Egira curialis <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 April 14 morning \u00a0\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy writes:\u00a0 On April 13 I went up to Mount Douglas at 3:00 pm and saw three Sara Orangetips, but they\u00a0weren\u2019t putting down at all. \u00a0Very active and long gaps between sightings. I had better luck at 5:30 pm at Mount Tolmie. When I arrived, there was one very [&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-21248","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\/21248","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=21248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21249,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21248\/revisions\/21249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}