{"id":266,"date":"2015-11-04T22:04:54","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T06:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=266"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:37:59","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:37:59","slug":"november-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=266","title":{"rendered":"November 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">2015 November 3<\/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;\">Geoffrey Newell sends a photograph of a <strong>Red Admiral <\/strong>from Cattle Point, November 2.&nbsp; Although Red Admirals spend the winter in the adult state, there is a question as to whether they do so here in Victoria, or whether they migrate to warmer climes. This is therefore an interesting observation.&nbsp; Until recent years it was believed that the Red Admiral did not overwinter in Britain.&nbsp; Either it migrated to warmer climes, or, if it stayed in Britain, it wouldn&rsquo;t survive the winter.&nbsp; In recent years they have been regularly overwintering in Britain &#8211; sometimes cited (whether correctly or not!) as evidence of global warming.&nbsp; It will be interesting to record any winter records of Red Admirals here (or any other butterfly species for that matter!)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-265\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nov_3_1.jpg\" alt=\"Nov 3 1\" width=\"1200\" height=\"805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nov_3_1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nov_3_1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nov_3_1-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nov_3_1-1024x687.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">Red Admiral <em>Vanessa atalanta <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)&nbsp; Geoffrey Newell<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 November 3 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Geoffrey Newell sends a photograph of a Red Admiral from Cattle Point, November 2.&nbsp; Although Red Admirals spend the winter in the adult state, there is a question as to whether they do so here in Victoria, or whether they migrate to warmer climes. This is therefore an interesting observation.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","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\/266","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=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1581,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/1581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}