{"id":493,"date":"2015-08-01T22:33:44","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T05:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=493"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:38:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:38:03","slug":"august-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=493","title":{"rendered":"August 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><html> <head> <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=iso-8859-1\"> <\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" style=\"display:none\"><!--P{margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} --><\/style>\n<p> <\/head> <body dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-size:12pt;color:#000000;background-color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"> <\/p>\n<p><strong>2015 August 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; In yesterday&#8217;s (July 31) posting we posted details of the <strong>August monthly butterfly walk, <\/strong>which is to be to the Kinsol Trestle.&nbsp; We dutifully posted where to meet (at the top of Mount Tolmie), and at what time (noon), but I have just realized that we omitted one minor detail &#8211; the <strong>date!<\/strong><strong>&nbsp; <\/strong>It is to be <strong>Sunday August 2<\/strong>.&nbsp; Apologies for that, but we hope to see you anyway. All welcome.&nbsp; Other details in the July 31 posting (just scroll down a few inches).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; The flowerheads of umbelliferous plants &#8211; such as Wild Carrot (&#8220;Queen Anne&#8217;s Lace&#8221;) and others are at present attracting lots of interesting bees, wasps and flies.&nbsp; All you have to do is to set up your camera, on a tripod if you have one, focussed on  an umbelliferous flower, and photograph each insect as it comes.&nbsp; The one snag is going to be identification.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not particularly knowledgeable on those groups, so we&#8217;ll need some help with identification.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; I&#8217;m slightly more knowledgeable about caterpillars &#8211; so here&#8217;s a nice one from Panama Flats today:<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"800\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"dactylina.JPG\" height=\"397.3333333333333\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image55bd494aa3099.jpeg\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\"><em>Acronycta dactylina <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Apologies to contributors for posting this so early in the day, before you have had a chance to submit your today&#8217;s photos &#8211; but I had to get that notice about the date of the Butterfly Walk posted a.s.a.p.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/body> <\/html> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 August 1 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; In yesterday&#8217;s (July 31) posting we posted details of the August monthly butterfly walk, which is to be to the Kinsol Trestle.&nbsp; We dutifully posted where to meet (at the top of Mount Tolmie), and at what time (noon), but I have just realized that we omitted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","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\/493","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=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1648,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions\/1648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}