{"id":3306,"date":"2011-11-02T09:56:07","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T16:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=3306"},"modified":"2011-11-05T07:18:52","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T14:18:52","slug":"last-butterfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=3306","title":{"rendered":"Last butterfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proclaiming the observation of any species as being the last of the season is fraught with problems&#8212;you just might see another a few days later. Yet, a butterfly on November 1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0has to be close to the last.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Posting updated on November 4th<\/strong>: The butterfly, below, has now been identified by Jon Shepard, an author of,\u00a0<em>Butterflies of British Columbia<\/em>, Guppy &amp;\u00a0Shepard (2001). He wrote me to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The anglewing is Zephyr or Polygonia zephyrus. \u00a0The submarginal row of\u00a0light spots on the upper side of the hind wing are larger and more diffuse\u00a0than for either P. satyrus or P. faunus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">It is certainly a good, late record!<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed, according to his book the latest observation for this species in BC is the second week in October&#8212;and that was probably at the Coast. Yet, this Zephyr Anglewing (its common name) was observed\u00a0flitting about a marshy region of Kokanee Creek Park in the first week of November.<\/p>\n<p>It was a pleasant if unexpected sight.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3307\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/greencomma111101s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"719\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proclaiming the observation of any species as being the last of the season is fraught with problems&#8212;you just might see another a few days later. Yet, a butterfly on November 1st\u00a0has to be close to the last. Posting updated on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=3306\">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-3306","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\/3306","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=3306"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3340,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions\/3340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}