{"id":5121,"date":"2017-09-24T16:21:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T23:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5121"},"modified":"2017-09-25T15:59:48","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T22:59:48","slug":"september-24-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5121","title":{"rendered":"September 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2017 September 24<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0\u00a0 And I thought the butterfly season was over!\u00a0 Not a bit of it!\u00a0\u00a0 Bill Savale and I went to McIntyre Reservoir today and we saw <strong>six<\/strong> species there.\u00a0 Several <strong>Cabbage Whites<\/strong>, of course.\u00a0 A male and a female <strong>Purplish Copper<\/strong> in perfect brand-new condition.\u00a0\u00a0 A pristine fresh <strong>Painted Lady<\/strong>, and a not-so-fresh <strong>American Lady.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>(The latter is a real rarity in our area, and even in British Columbia.)\u00a0 Two sulphurs.\u00a0 One was a deep rich orange and was clearly an <strong>Orange <\/strong><strong>Sulphur<\/strong><strong>. <\/strong>The other was a much paler yellow, similar to the few of that colour that we saw on the VNHS September Butterfly Walk.\u00a0 I am pretty well convinced now that these are <strong>Clouded Sulphurs.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I had a good look at one of them.\u00a0 It was a male (no yellow spots within the terminal band).\u00a0 That rules out the possibility that it was a female Orange Sulphur, and also rules out the possibility that it was a white (<em>helice<\/em>) form of a female of any sulphur.\u00a0 The width of the black terminal band appeared to be obviously narrow compared with that of an Orange Sulphur.\u00a0 While I am pretty-well convinced that it was a Clouded Sulphur, it would still be of great interest if someone could obtain (or if someone already has obtained) a photograph of one of these paler sulphurs.\u00a0 One feature of interest to look at would be the row of dark subterminal spots on the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">underside<\/span> of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> forewing.<\/span>\u00a0 It is a pity that we cannot investigate the large alfalfa patches in the Forbidden Field.\u00a0 There might even be caterpillars there.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 September 24 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0\u00a0 And I thought the butterfly season was over!\u00a0 Not a bit of it!\u00a0\u00a0 Bill Savale and I went to McIntyre Reservoir today and we saw six species there.\u00a0 Several Cabbage Whites, of course.\u00a0 A male and a female Purplish Copper in perfect brand-new condition.\u00a0\u00a0 A pristine fresh [&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-5121","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\/5121","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=5121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5131,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121\/revisions\/5131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}