{"id":23359,"date":"2024-08-31T07:44:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T14:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=23359"},"modified":"2024-08-31T07:46:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T14:46:54","slug":"2024-august-31-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=23359","title":{"rendered":"2024 August 31 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2024 August 31 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No Invertebrate Alert was issued on August 30.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Monthly Butterfly Walk<\/strong> will take place tomorrow, starting at 1:00 pm on top of Mount Tolmie. For the formal announcement and other details, see the Invert Alert posting for August 29 evening.\u00a0 All welcome.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Rycraft writes: I saw a couple of <strong>Woodland Skippers<\/strong> yesterday afternoon feeding on the Lavender in my Oak Bay garden..\u00a0 I used to see many, but local development has reduced the wild grass areas that used to be nearby.\u00a0 Plus the usual <strong>Cabbage Whites<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Many viewers, I suspect, writes Jeremy Tatum, will have observed that Lavender seems to have a special nectaring attraction for Woodland Skippers.\u00a0 The caterpillar feeds on grasses \u2013 hence Richard\u2019s reference to the lost grass areas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23357 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Woodland-Skipper-Aug-30th-2024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"508\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Woodland-Skipper-Aug-30th-2024-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Woodland-Skipper-Aug-30th-2024-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Woodland-Skipper-Aug-30th-2024-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Woodland-Skipper-Aug-30th-2024.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/>Woodland Skipper <em>Ochlodes sylvanoides\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Richard Rycraft<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum sends a photograph of a moth from his Saanich apartment this morning.\u00a0 This one, the <strong>Square-spot Rustic, <\/strong>like the <strong>Large<\/strong> and <strong>Lesser Yellow Underwings\u00b8 <\/strong>is a European moth that has somehow established itself here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23358 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_4897-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"565\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_4897-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_4897-1024x892.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_4897-768x669.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_4897.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><em>Xestia xanthographa\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 August 31 morning No Invertebrate Alert was issued on August 30. The Monthly Butterfly Walk will take place tomorrow, starting at 1:00 pm on top of Mount Tolmie. For the formal announcement and other details, see the Invert Alert posting for August 29 evening.\u00a0 All welcome. Richard Rycraft writes: I saw a couple of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23359","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=23359"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23362,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23359\/revisions\/23362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}