{"id":358,"date":"2015-10-02T01:36:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T08:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=358"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:38:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:38:00","slug":"october-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=358","title":{"rendered":"October 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2015 October 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Monthly Butterfly Walk<\/strong> <br \/> (Jeremy Tatum)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Aziza unfortunately won&rsquo;t be able to make the October walk, and she has asked me to lead it. We meet at the top of Mount Tolmie at 1:00 pm, Sunday October 4. There are no huge numbers of butterflies around at this time of year, so we&rsquo;ll think of the October Butterfly Walk as a challenge to find the last few butterflies before the onset of S.A.D. There are still a few Cabbage Whites around, and one or two Red Admirals, Mourning Cloaks and Painted Ladies have been reported in the last couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We usually decide where we are going to go by mutual discussion on Mount Tolmie. I have two suggestions. One is the cabbage fields at Island View Road, where there is a fairly good chance of seeing a few Cabbage Whites. There might also be a chance of finding a late Purplish Copper there or along nearby Island View Beach. And in past years, very rarely, there have been a few October Orange Sulphurs there, though maybe that&rsquo;s being a bit optimistic. My second suggestion would be Panama Flats to see how many Banded Woolly Bear caterpillars we can count. A couple of years ago there were dozens, perhaps even hundreds, there. This is the caterpillar of the Isabella Moth. But these are just a couple of suggestions. Other suggestions would be welcome when we meet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bud Logan sends a photograph of a caterpillar of the <strong>Peppered Moth <em>Biston betularia<\/em><\/strong>. It has turned brown and assumed a rather dumpy appearance just prior to pupation.<\/p>\n<p> <center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Oct_1_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Oct_1_1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Oct_1_1-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Oct_1_1-768x467.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Oct_1_1-1024x622.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/center><center>Peppered Moth <em>Biston betularia<\/em> (Lep.: Geometridae) Bud Logan<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 October 1 Monthly Butterfly Walk (Jeremy Tatum) &nbsp; Aziza unfortunately won&rsquo;t be able to make the October walk, and she has asked me to lead it. We meet at the top of Mount Tolmie at 1:00 pm, Sunday October 4. There are no huge numbers of butterflies around at this time of year, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","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\/358","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=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1598,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/1598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}