{"id":7177,"date":"2018-09-28T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7177"},"modified":"2018-09-29T09:31:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T16:31:25","slug":"september-28-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7177","title":{"rendered":"September 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2018 September 28<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>There are still <strong>Cabbage Whites<\/strong> around.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes that he saw several in various places on the Saanich Peninsula today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Ron Flower writes: \u00a0Today Friday 28<sup>th<\/sup>, we went to Beacon Hill Park and found this fresh looking <strong>Mourning Cloak<\/strong>. We found it along the paved trail by the maintenance yard.\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum comments:\u00a0 We have had very, very few Mourning Cloaks this year.\u00a0 Offhand, without looking it up, I can think of only one previous sighting this year in the southern Vancouver Island birdwatching area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_1098 (2) (Large).JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_1098-2-Large.jpg\" width=\"542.4\" height=\"404.53999999999996\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mourning Cloak <em>Nymphalis antiopa <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Ron Flower<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_1095 (Large).JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_1095-Large.jpg\" width=\"542.4\" height=\"376.9300699300699\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mourning Cloak <em>Nymphalis antiopa <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Ron Flower<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Here is a Y<strong>ellow Woolly Bear <\/strong>caterpillar from Longview Farms, Central Saanich, today. \u00a0\u00a0The colour of this caterpillar may vary from brown, like this one, through yellow, even to white.\u00a0 At this time of year, we may find several species of woolly bear.\u00a0 October, especially, is the month for the Banded Woolly Bear.\u00a0 Many are often seen in Panama Flats. \u00a0\u00a0Some of the woolly bears, such as the Yellow Woolly Bear, are fairly easy to rear to adult moth.\u00a0 Viewers should be aware, however, that the Banded Woolly Bear is among the most difficult caterpillars to rear successfully.\u00a0 If you are interested in rearing caterpillars for the first time, the Banded Woolly Bear is not a good one to start with.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Spilosoma.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Spilosoma.jpg\" width=\"542.4\" height=\"361.59999999999997\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Yellow Woolly Bear <em>Spilosoma virginica <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Arctiinae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 September 28 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 There are still Cabbage Whites around.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes that he saw several in various places on the Saanich Peninsula today. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Ron Flower writes: \u00a0Today Friday 28th, we went to Beacon Hill Park and found this fresh looking Mourning Cloak. We found it along the paved trail by [&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-7177","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\/7177","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=7177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7181,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177\/revisions\/7181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}