{"id":23352,"date":"2024-08-29T21:13:16","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T04:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=23352"},"modified":"2024-08-29T21:14:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T04:14:01","slug":"2024-august-29-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=23352","title":{"rendered":"2024 August 29 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2024 August 29 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Monthly Butterfly Walk \u00a0Sunday September 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Join us on our monthly Butterfly Walk. Each outing is intended to help us learn more about local butterflies. This field trip is weather-dependent as it needs to be sunny and warm to make it worthwhile. We start at the top of Mount Tolmie (off Cedar Hill Cross Road). <strong>Meet at 1 p.m.<\/strong> in the lot by the reservoir where we will have an initial look for butterflies and then decide where to go from there. Car-pooling is encouraged. We try to return by 4 p.m. Cancellations or special instructions will be posted on the Invertebrate Alert ( <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?cat=8\">https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?cat=8<\/a> ) or the calendar (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?page_id=1518\">https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?page_id=1518<\/a> ) closer to the date. Contact Gordon Hart at 250-721-1264 or <a href=\"mailto:butterflies@vicnhs.bc.ca\">butterflies@vicnhs.bc.ca<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<p>Butterflies seem to be relatively few at present.\u00a0 However, this time of year is the time for the possibility of seeing some exciting migratory butterfly, such as a <em>sulphur<\/em> or a <em>lady<\/em>.\u00a0 In any case, there are still quite a lot of <em>dragonflies <\/em>and <em>damselflies <\/em>around, so we can make this a combined trip to see and identify butterflies and dragonflies.\u00a0 It will probably be a good idea to select as our destination somewhere where there be dragons.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Aziza Cooper writes:\u00a0 Today, August 29, at Cowichan Station, there were four <strong>Margined Whites<\/strong>, two <strong>Cabbage Whites<\/strong>, one <strong>Woodland Skipper<\/strong> and a brief look at a possible <strong>Mylitta Crescent<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23350 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/L-Margined-Wht-1-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"651\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/L-Margined-Wht-1-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/L-Margined-Wht-1-1024x714.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/L-Margined-Wht-1-768x536.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/L-Margined-Wht-1.jpg 1077w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 651px) 100vw, 651px\" \/>Margined White\u00a0 <em>Pieris marginalis\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23351 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/L-Margined-Wht-2b-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"649\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/L-Margined-Wht-2b-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/L-Margined-Wht-2b.jpg 639w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 649px) 100vw, 649px\" \/>Margined White\u00a0 <em>Pieris marginalis\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 August 29 evening Monthly Butterfly Walk \u00a0Sunday September 1 Join us on our monthly Butterfly Walk. Each outing is intended to help us learn more about local butterflies. This field trip is weather-dependent as it needs to be sunny and warm to make it worthwhile. We start at the top of Mount Tolmie (off [&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-23352","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\/23352","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=23352"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23355,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23352\/revisions\/23355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}