{"id":7506,"date":"2019-03-17T15:13:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T22:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7506"},"modified":"2019-03-17T15:22:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T22:22:24","slug":"march-17-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7506","title":{"rendered":"March 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2019 March 17<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong><strong>Butterfly!<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;  <\/strong>Jochen M\u00f6hr writes:&nbsp; I just wanted to report the first sighting of a <strong>  Cabbage White<\/strong> in Metchosin (William Head Road\/Lombard Road area) on Friday afternoon, March 15.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But then I came across these news items, which might interest you and your readers as well:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2019\/3\/13\/1841876\/-Enormous-Painted-Lady-Migration-in-California\">https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2019\/3\/13\/1841876\/-Enormous-Painted-Lady-Migration-in-California<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2019\/3\/13\/1841876\/-Enormous-Painted-Lady-Migration-in-California?detail=emaildkcs\">https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2019\/3\/13\/1841876\/-Enormous-Painted-Lady-Migration-in-California?detail=emaildkcs<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I find particularly the video, the second one, impressive.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I couldn&#8217;t find a butterfly today, so I was reduced to photographing a pair of  <strong>kelp flies <\/strong>on Mount Douglas Beach instead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 539px; 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=\"IMG_3060.JPG\" originalwidth=\"1200\" originalheight=\"955\" width=\"581.6\" height=\"462.8566666666667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_3060.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Kelp flies (Dip.: Coelopidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 March 17 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Butterfly!&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr writes:&nbsp; I just wanted to report the first sighting of a Cabbage White in Metchosin (William Head Road\/Lombard Road area) on Friday afternoon, March 15.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; But then I came across these news items, which might interest you and your readers as well: &nbsp; https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2019\/3\/13\/1841876\/-Enormous-Painted-Lady-Migration-in-California &nbsp; https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2019\/3\/13\/1841876\/-Enormous-Painted-Lady-Migration-in-California?detail=emaildkcs [&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-7506","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\/7506","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=7506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}