{"id":7399,"date":"2019-01-06T10:57:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T18:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7399"},"modified":"2019-01-06T11:07:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T19:07:02","slug":"january-6-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7399","title":{"rendered":"January 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2019 January 6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I quote from page 3 of the January-February  <em>Victoria Naturalist<\/em>:&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;For more that six years, an army of citizen scientists across Canada has been scouring gardens, trails and vacant lots, in search of butterflies..&nbsp; Their observations have poured in by the tens of thousands, arriving at an online   depository known as eButterfly&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp; You can guess the rest of the gist of the article, or read it in the  <em>VN<\/em>.&nbsp; In any case I wonder if anyone is contributing observations to eButterfly from our area, or if anyone would like to undertake to do so.&nbsp; Not me, because I&#8217;m a computerphobe, but I&#8217;m sure that, among our viewers, there are some who are already   familiar with eBird, and who could relatively easily handle eButterfly.&nbsp; Collectively we are pretty familiar with the butterflies of this area, but are our butterflies more widely known?&nbsp; If anyone would like to investigate eButterfly and to contribute local   butterfly observations to eButterfly, please let us know.&nbsp;&nbsp; We have some butterflies that are regular, but which fly at different times of year.&nbsp; Some are single-brooded; others are double-brooded.&nbsp; There are some, including migratory species, whose numbers   vary greatly from year to year&nbsp; (e.g. Mourning Cloak).&nbsp; There are some whose numbers seem to be declining drastically (Satyr Comma,&nbsp; Anise Swallowtail,&nbsp; Mylitta Crescent).&nbsp; I can&#8217;t offhand think of any whose population is increasing.&nbsp; There are occasional   stray rarities (e.g. Monarch).&nbsp; And new discoveries (Johnson&#8217;s Hairstreak).&nbsp; Thus there are lots of things that we are familiar with, but which should be reported and which ought to be entered into the national body of butterfly knowledge.&nbsp; So, if anyone is   interested in reporting our observations to eButterfly, let us know!<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 January 6 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I quote from page 3 of the January-February Victoria Naturalist:&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &#8220;For more that six years, an army of citizen scientists across Canada has been scouring gardens, trails and vacant lots, in search of butterflies..&nbsp; Their observations have poured in by the tens of thousands, arriving at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7399","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\/7399","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=7399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}