{"id":3949,"date":"2017-04-23T22:38:04","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T22:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3949"},"modified":"2017-04-23T15:42:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-23T22:42:39","slug":"april-23-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3949","title":{"rendered":"April 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2017 April 23<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Happy Saint George\u2019s Day, everyone!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rosemary Jorna reports her first butterfly of the year &#8211; a <strong>Mourning Cloak<\/strong> on the Bugaboo Main past Port Renfrew, April 21.\u00a0 This is the first report of this species this year received by Invert Alert.\u00a0 She sends a photograph of a snail from the Walbran Valley.\u00a0 Can someone identify, please?\u00a0 (jtatum at uvic dot ca). She remarks that snails can retreat into their shells very fast for slow-moving animals &#8211; an observation that will be appreciated by anyone who has tried to photograph a snail!\u00a0 [Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I have often noticed, too, the astonishing speed at which slow-moving people can get in the way while one is shopping in the supermarket!]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"snail Port Renfrew.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/snail-Port-Renfrew.jpg\" width=\"598.4\" height=\"448.79999999999995\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Snail for identification, someone?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bill Katz sends photographs of a micro moth and a caterpillar from Sooke.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 414px;\" title=\"Agonopterix oregonensis_ Sooke.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Agonopterix-oregonensis_-Sooke.jpg\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><em>Agonopterix oregonensis <\/em>(Lep.: Depressariidae)\u00a0 Bill Katz<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Caterpillar Sooke Apr17.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Caterpillar-Sooke-Apr17.jpg\" width=\"598.4\" height=\"379.984\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Large Yellow Underwing <em>Noctua pronuba <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Bill Katz<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 April 23 Happy Saint George\u2019s Day, everyone! &nbsp; Rosemary Jorna reports her first butterfly of the year &#8211; a Mourning Cloak on the Bugaboo Main past Port Renfrew, April 21.\u00a0 This is the first report of this species this year received by Invert Alert.\u00a0 She sends a photograph of a snail from the Walbran [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3949","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\/3949","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=3949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3953,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949\/revisions\/3953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}