{"id":6790,"date":"2018-08-02T16:36:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T23:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6790"},"modified":"2018-08-02T16:37:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T23:37:01","slug":"august-2-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6790","title":{"rendered":"August 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>August 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Nathan Fisk writes:&nbsp; I&#8217;m writing in to report on the heart warming number of  <strong>Woodland Skippers<\/strong> swarming the White-topped Aster in theFort Rodd nursery.&nbsp; I&#8217;d conservatively estimate  <strong>75 Woodland<\/strong> <strong>Skippers<\/strong>, <strong>10 Bombus vosnesenskii, 20 leaf-cutter bees<\/strong> and at least 3 other species are nectaring in this area. The make-up of the invertebrates changes over the course of a day with the bulk of   the skippers showing after noon. A wonderful sight.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp; And Bryan Gates also comments on the <strong>Woodland Skippers<\/strong> in his garden.&nbsp; He sends a photograph of one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 467px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"skipperBryan.jpg\" originalwidth=\"602\" originalheight=\"456\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"449.0312292358804\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/skipperBryan.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Woodland Skipper <em>Ochlodes sylvanoides <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)&nbsp; Bryan Gates<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong><strong>Mistakes:<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;  <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; Every now and again I make some sort of mistake &#8211; spelling, identification, date, whatever &#8211; when entering contributions.&nbsp; Some of them are glaringly obvious and must be noticed by anyone who looks at the site.&nbsp; But you are all   so beautifully polite and don&#8217;t want to hurt my feelings, so you don&#8217;t mention it to me.&nbsp; Please, please, please, if you spot a mistake of any sort:&nbsp; let me know about it, so that I can correct it!<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 2 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Nathan Fisk writes:&nbsp; I&#8217;m writing in to report on the heart warming number of Woodland Skippers swarming the White-topped Aster in theFort Rodd nursery.&nbsp; I&#8217;d conservatively estimate 75 Woodland Skippers, 10 Bombus vosnesenskii, 20 leaf-cutter bees and at least 3 other species are nectaring in this area. The make-up of the [&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-6790","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\/6790","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=6790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}