{"id":423,"date":"2015-08-24T02:22:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T09:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=423"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:38:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:38:01","slug":"august-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=423","title":{"rendered":"August 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2105 August 23<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I had an unsuccessful search for the Western Branded Skipper on Cordova Spit today.&nbsp; In 1.5 hours on the spit all I could manage was one <strong>Woodland Skipper <\/strong>and&nbsp; one <strong>Purplish Copper.<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>On the way back to Island View Beach, in the fields inland from the beach, there were lots of <strong>Woodland Skippers <\/strong>and <strong>Large Heaths<\/strong>, and a few <strong> Cabbage Whites.<\/strong><strong>&nbsp; <\/strong>At 6:15 this evening there was one <strong> Painted Lady <\/strong>on the top of Christmas Hill.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Julie Michaux writes:&nbsp; This critter is in our home (West Saanich Road) this morning. Very pretty. If it turns out to be a cutworm moth &#8230;.&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum responds:&nbsp; No, it is not a cutworm, it is<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image55da7feaac263.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"596\" height=\"394.84999999999997\" title=\"moth.jpg\" name=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image55da7feaac263.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image55da7feaac263-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image55da7feaac263-768x509.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image55da7feaac263-1024x678.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<em>Coryphista meadii <\/em>(Lep.:&nbsp; Geometridae)&nbsp; Julie Michaux<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Its colourful &ldquo;inchworm&rdquo; caterpillar feeds on <em>Berberis<\/em> and <em>Mahonia<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2105 August 23 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I had an unsuccessful search for the Western Branded Skipper on Cordova Spit today.&nbsp; In 1.5 hours on the spit all I could manage was one Woodland Skipper and&nbsp; one Purplish Copper.&nbsp;&nbsp; On the way back to Island View Beach, in the fields inland from the beach, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","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\/423","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=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1625,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/1625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}