{"id":421,"date":"2015-08-23T02:31:33","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T09:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=421"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:38:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:38:01","slug":"august-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"August 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2015 August 22<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; A noctuid moth turned up at my apartment today for the first time in several weeks.&nbsp; Thank you, Libby Avis, for identifying it as <em><strong>Xestia xanthographa<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image55d93087f28c4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"596\" height=\"461.4033333333333\" title=\"noctuid JBT.JPG\" name=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image55d93087f28c4.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image55d93087f28c4-300x232.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image55d93087f28c4-768x595.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image55d93087f28c4-1024x793.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" \/><em>Xestia xanthographa<\/em>&nbsp; (Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I had no difficulty in identifying <strong>2 Painted Ladies<\/strong> and a <strong>Red Admiral <\/strong>&nbsp;on the Mount Tolmie reservoir, and another <strong> Painted Lady<\/strong> near the Jeffery Pine, at 6:45 pm this evening.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeff Gaskin writes:&nbsp; I saw a <strong>Grey Hairstreak<\/strong>. It was a FOY [first of the year?] for me too. I saw it right by the Old Island Highway and Ocean Boulevard or right by the Western Exchange bus terminal. A very strange place for one to be.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Val George writes:&nbsp; After several attempts to see a <strong>Western Branded Skipper<\/strong> at Saanichton Spit (Cordova Spit), I finally managed to get one this afternoon, Aug 22.&nbsp; Also there, were about a dozen <strong>Woodland Skippers<\/strong>.&nbsp; At Island View Beach there were at least ten <strong>Ringlets<\/strong> <strong>(Large Heaths) (<\/strong><strong><em>Coenonympha tullia<\/em><\/strong><strong>)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 August 22 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; A noctuid moth turned up at my apartment today for the first time in several weeks.&nbsp; Thank you, Libby Avis, for identifying it as Xestia xanthographa. &nbsp; &nbsp; Xestia xanthographa&nbsp; (Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I had no difficulty in identifying 2 Painted Ladies and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","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\/421","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=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1626,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/1626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}