{"id":4541,"date":"2017-06-27T15:29:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T22:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4541"},"modified":"2017-06-28T16:11:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T23:11:21","slug":"june-27-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4541","title":{"rendered":"June 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2017 June 27<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>No response yet for our appeal for an opinion on Peter Boon\u2019s commas on Mount Becher (June 25 entry), but Peter has managed to get a good photograph of the underside, and I think most of us would now agree that the butterfly is the <strong>Hoary (\u201cZephyr\u201d)<\/strong> <strong>Comma <\/strong><strong><em>Polygonia gracilis zephyrus<\/em><\/strong> (which Guppy and Shepard list as a full species). [Added later:\u00a0 Mike Yip concurs.]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"comma3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/comma3.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"575.6366666666667\" name=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Hoary (\u201cZephyr\u201d) Comma <em>Polygonia gracilis zephyrus <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Peter Boon<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Has anyone seen any Satyr Commas recently?\u00a0 This used to be one of our commonest butterflies, but it now seems to have disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nick Doe sends a photograph of a <strong>Polyphemus Moth <\/strong>from Gabriola Island.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 407px;\" title=\"Polyphemus und.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Polyphemus-und.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=\"\" \/>Polyphemus Moth <em>Antheraea polyphemus<\/em><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Lep.: Saturniidae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Nick Doe<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 June 27 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 No response yet for our appeal for an opinion on Peter Boon\u2019s commas on Mount Becher (June 25 entry), but Peter has managed to get a good photograph of the underside, and I think most of us would now agree that the butterfly is the Hoary (\u201cZephyr\u201d) Comma Polygonia gracilis [&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-4541","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\/4541","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=4541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4547,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541\/revisions\/4547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}