{"id":7051,"date":"2018-09-02T19:02:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T02:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7051"},"modified":"2018-09-02T19:07:04","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T02:07:04","slug":"september-2-evening-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7051","title":{"rendered":"September 2 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2018 September 2 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>The butterfly season is drawing to a close, with perhaps the only butterflies that one might expect to find being  <strong>Cabbage White, Woodland Skipper, Ringlet (Large Heath) and Purplish Copper<\/strong> (all from different Families!). &nbsp;Three die-hard enthusiasts turned up for the monthly Butterfly Walk this afternoon &#8211; &nbsp;Val George, Jeremy Tatum, and Iwan Lewylle who   came all the way from Belgium to be with us.&nbsp; We went to McIntyre Reservoir and Island View Beach in Central Saanich, and we saw all four of these butterflies, including both sexes of the sexually dimorphic Purplish Copper. &nbsp;&nbsp;So &#8211; there are still butterflies   to be found by those who seek them out!&nbsp; In addition to the butterflies, we found &#8211; and Val photographed &#8211; a young instar caterpillar of the moth  <strong><em>Heliothis phloxiphaga<\/em><\/strong>, sitting in a Gumweed flower. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 553px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"caterpillar 2.JPG\" originalwidth=\"1009\" originalheight=\"673\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"395.3958374628345\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/caterpillar-2.jpg\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Heliothis phloxiphaga <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp; Val George<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 September 2 evening &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; The butterfly season is drawing to a close, with perhaps the only butterflies that one might expect to find being Cabbage White, Woodland Skipper, Ringlet (Large Heath) and Purplish Copper (all from different Families!). &nbsp;Three die-hard enthusiasts turned up for the monthly Butterfly Walk this afternoon &#8211; &nbsp;Val George, [&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-7051","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\/7051","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=7051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}