{"id":247,"date":"2015-10-17T03:10:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T10:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=247"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:37:59","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:37:59","slug":"october-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=247","title":{"rendered":"October 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">2015 October 16<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">Aziza Cooper writes:&nbsp; A <strong>Painted Lady<\/strong> was on Brighton Avenue near Oliver Street this afternoon, Oct. 15. I think this is the latest Lady I&#8217;ve seen.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum comments:&nbsp; This is certainly a late date for a Painted Lady, and a nice surprise.&nbsp; The Painted Lady spends the winter as an adult butterfly, so in principle one might see one in any of the winter months.&nbsp; However, I don&rsquo;t know whether any actually survive the winter here in Victoria, or whether they fly south to avoid our winter (mild as ours are).&nbsp; It is a highly migratory species.&nbsp; Last year, 2014, there were two October sightings reported to Invertebrate Alert &#8211; the latest being October 7.&nbsp;&nbsp; See the 2015 January 30 posting for a summary of 2014 butterfly sightings reported to Invert Alert.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-245\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Oct_16_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1159\" height=\"822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Oct_16_1.jpg 1159w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Oct_16_1-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Oct_16_1-768x545.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Oct_16_1-1024x726.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1159px) 100vw, 1159px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">Painted Lady <em>Vanessa cardui <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)&nbsp; Aziza Cooper<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; There are still some <strong>Cabbage Whites<\/strong> around.&nbsp; They were reported today (October16) from Lansdowne Road, Cattle Point and McMicking Point.&nbsp; The caterpillar from Gordon Hart&rsquo;s broccoli (see October 9 posting) pupated into a nice chrysalis today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-246\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Oct_16_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1028\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Oct_16_2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Oct_16_2-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Oct_16_2-768x658.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Oct_16_2-1024x877.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">Cabbage White <em>Pieris rapae <\/em>(Lep.:&nbsp; Pieridae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 October 16 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Aziza Cooper writes:&nbsp; A Painted Lady was on Brighton Avenue near Oliver Street this afternoon, Oct. 15. I think this is the latest Lady I&#8217;ve seen.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum comments:&nbsp; This is certainly a late date for a Painted Lady, and a nice surprise.&nbsp; The Painted Lady spends the winter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1588,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/1588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}