{"id":9767,"date":"2019-11-17T15:42:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T23:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=9767"},"modified":"2019-11-17T15:47:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T23:47:43","slug":"november-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=9767","title":{"rendered":"November 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2019 November 17<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong><strong>Butterfly!<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>The butterfly season is not yet over!&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#8217;s a dark, soggy, rainy November day &#8211; not the sort of day to look for butterflies.&nbsp; Yet Anne-Marie Hart and Tina Akhavan have just seen a  <strong>California Tortoiseshell<\/strong> sunning (!) on a Manzanita bush at the Highlands Community Hall on Finlayson Arm Road.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" style=\"width:443px; margin:5px\" src=\"\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"443\" originalheight=\"324\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pastedImage-66.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">California Tortoiseshell <em>Nymphalis californica <\/em>  (Lep.: Nymphalidae)&nbsp; Tina Akhavan<\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum shows two <strong>Winter Moths<\/strong> from his Saanich apartment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" style=\"width:624px; margin:5px\" src=\"\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"422\" width=\"582.4\" height=\"393.8666666666667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pastedImage-67.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Winter Moth <em>Operophtera brumata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"466\" width=\"582.4\" height=\"434.93333333333334\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pastedImage-68.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Winter Moth <em>Operophtera brumata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr&#8217;s moths from Metchosin this morning.&nbsp; No photographs taken.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>3 Drepanulatrix <\/em><\/strong><strong>sp.<\/strong><strong><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Epirrita autumnata<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>7 Operophtera <\/em><\/strong><strong>sp.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Sunira decipiens<\/em><\/strong> (same individual at same spot for three days now)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 November 17 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Butterfly!&nbsp;&nbsp; The butterfly season is not yet over!&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#8217;s a dark, soggy, rainy November day &#8211; not the sort of day to look for butterflies.&nbsp; Yet Anne-Marie Hart and Tina Akhavan have just seen a California Tortoiseshell sunning (!) on a Manzanita bush at the Highlands Community Hall on Finlayson [&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-9767","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\/9767","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=9767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}