{"id":7518,"date":"2019-03-20T10:14:59","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T17:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7518"},"modified":"2019-04-08T10:34:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T17:34:03","slug":"march-20-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7518","title":{"rendered":"March 20 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 541px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2019 March 20 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Ron Flower writes:\u00a0 Yesterday March 19 we went to the Goldstream River and found <strong>Mourning Cloak<\/strong> and a<strong> Comma<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 [Jeremy Tatum comments:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On March 18 I remarked that commas often like to rest head downwards.\u00a0 This one must have read my remarks.\u00a0 Commas can be very hard to identify from\u00a0 uppersides alone, and I wouldn\u2019t want to name this one!\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019d welcome opinions from viewers.\u00a0 At Goldstream I think Satyrs are more likely than Green.\u00a0 On the other hand Satyrs have become scarce in recent years.\u00a0 Let\u2019s play this one safe and say just \u201cComma\u201d!]\u00a0 Added later:\u00a0 Thanks to Cris Guppy for identifying it as a female <strong>Satyr Comma<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 541px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pastedImage-1.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Satyr Comma <em>Polygonia satyrus\u00a0<\/em> (Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Ron Flower.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\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_2051 (3) (Large).JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_2051-3-Large.jpg\" width=\"593.6\" height=\"418.9826666666667\" 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;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Just at press time, more reports of commas are coming in, with the usual difficulties of identifying them!\u00a0 Yesterday Jochen M\u00f6hr saw a probable <strong>Green <\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Comma<\/strong> in Metchosin, and Gordon Hart saw a definite <strong>Green Comma <\/strong>again in the Highlands.\u00a0 Gordon also saw and managed to photograph a certain <strong>Satyr Comma <\/strong>at the northeast corner of Swan Lake.\u00a0 Satyr Commas used to be very common, but in the last two or three years they have become quite scarce.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\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=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pastedImage-2.png\" width=\"593.6\" height=\"484.2025641025641\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Satyr Comma\u00a0 <em>Polygonia satyrus <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 March 20 morning \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Ron Flower writes:\u00a0 Yesterday March 19 we went to the Goldstream River and found Mourning Cloak and a Comma.\u00a0\u00a0 [Jeremy Tatum comments:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On March 18 I remarked that commas often like to rest head downwards.\u00a0 This one must have read my remarks.\u00a0 Commas can be very hard to identify [&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-7518","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\/7518","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=7518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7660,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7518\/revisions\/7660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}