{"id":2527,"date":"2011-08-10T10:37:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T17:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2527"},"modified":"2011-09-08T17:48:01","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T00:48:01","slug":"cabbage-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2527","title":{"rendered":"Cabbage White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing rare about this butterfly. The\u00a0Cabbage White\u00a0is common across the southern half of the Province and, although it is an introduced species, it has been here for about two centuries.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2529\" style=\"width: 366px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2529\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2529\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/cabbagewhite080720sh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"356\" height=\"237\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A female shows two spots on the upper forewing.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last week, I watched a dozen or more Cabbage Whites sipping nutrients from the moist soil along the shore of Duck Bay at Nelson\u2019s waterfront. During their phrenetic activities I could not distinguish the sexes. Later, using pictures, I could only identify males.<\/p>\n<p>Both sexes have a black tip on the upper forewing, behind which there is one black spot on the male, and two black spots on the female. The underwings are virtually the same, each with two black spots on the forewing.<\/p>\n<p>So, one must see the two spots on the upper wing to identify the female. To the right, I include a small picture of a female taken a previous year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The extended proboscis of each Cabbage White is being used to sip nutrients from the moist soil.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2528\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/cabbagewhite110804c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The butterfly lifting off seems to have a faint second spot on its upper forewing, but we are merely seeing through the wing to the lower side where there are two spots. This too is a male.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2530\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/cabbagewhite110804ds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The back underwing is a pale mustard colour. The proboscis is coiled as it flies away.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2531\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/cabbagewhite110804a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing rare about this butterfly. The\u00a0Cabbage White\u00a0is common across the southern half of the Province and, although it is an introduced species, it has been here for about two centuries. Last week, I watched a dozen or more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2527\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2527"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2852,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions\/2852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}