{"id":21314,"date":"2024-04-20T08:05:28","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T15:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21314"},"modified":"2024-04-20T08:05:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T15:05:28","slug":"2024-april-20-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21314","title":{"rendered":"2024 April 20 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2024 April 20 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy writes:\u00a0 I was up at Mount Douglas Park at 2:00 pm, April 19, hoping to see a female \u00a0<strong>Sara Orangetip \u00a0<\/strong>and I got lucky. One was being chased around by two males. Always a challenge as constantly on the move. Five individuals in total.<\/p>\n<p>Other butterflies up at the top parking lot were three <strong>Western Spring Azures<\/strong> and one <strong>Mourning Cloak<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21312 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2W1A4585-1orange-f-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"637\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2W1A4585-1orange-f-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2W1A4585-1orange-f-1024x633.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2W1A4585-1orange-f-768x475.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2W1A4585-1orange-f.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\" \/>Female Sara Orangetip <em>Anthocharis sara <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)<br \/>\nMarie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21311 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2W1A4579-2orange-mf-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2W1A4579-2orange-mf-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2W1A4579-2orange-mf-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2W1A4579-2orange-mf-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2W1A4579-2orange-mf.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/>Male and female Sara Orangetip <em>Anthocharis sara <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)<br \/>\nMarie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here are two slugs photographed by Ian Cooper and kindly identified by Robert Forsyth:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21313 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DSC03020cslug1-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"527\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DSC03020cslug1-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DSC03020cslug1-1024x798.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DSC03020cslug1-768x598.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DSC03020cslug1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><em>Deroceras reticulatum <\/em>(Pul.: Agriolimacidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21310 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DSC03023cslug2-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DSC03023cslug2-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DSC03023cslug2-1024x753.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DSC03023cslug2-768x564.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DSC03023cslug2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><em>Deroceras laeve <\/em>(Pul.: Agriolimacidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 April 20 morning Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy writes:\u00a0 I was up at Mount Douglas Park at 2:00 pm, April 19, hoping to see a female \u00a0Sara Orangetip \u00a0and I got lucky. One was being chased around by two males. Always a challenge as constantly on the move. Five individuals in total. Other butterflies up at the [&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-21314","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\/21314","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=21314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21316,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21314\/revisions\/21316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}