{"id":13914,"date":"2021-05-05T17:47:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T00:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13914"},"modified":"2021-05-24T10:09:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T17:09:49","slug":"may-5-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13914","title":{"rendered":"May 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 May 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Bruce Whittington sends a photograph of a blue from his Ladysmith garden yesterday.\u00a0 Since it shows only the upperside, writes Jeremy Tatum, identification was a bit of a challenge, so I am grateful to Mike Yip for examining it critically and confirming Bruce&#8217;s suspicion and mine that it is a male <strong>Western Spring Azure.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><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_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\/2021\/05\/pastedImage-10.png\" width=\"597.6\" height=\"431.9192307692308\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Male Western Spring Azure <em>Celastrina echo <\/em> (Lep.: Lycaenidae) Bruce Whittington<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 A few dragonflies and damselflies have been seen in the past few days.\u00a0 Wendy Ansell writes that she saw her first dragonfly of the season yesterday at Durrance Lake.\u00a0\u00a0 She got a few quick snaps of it, not, she feels good enough for posting, but good enough for the first <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">identified<\/span> dragonfly reported this year.\u00a0\u00a0 It was an <strong>American Emerald <\/strong><strong><em>Cordulia shurtleffii<\/em><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Rosemary Jorna photographed two snails in her yard near Kemp Lake today:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 532px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pastedImage-11.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Monadenia fidelis <\/em>(Pul.: Bradybaenidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 555px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pastedImage-12.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Vespericola columbianus <\/em>(Pul.: Polygyridae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 May 5 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Bruce Whittington sends a photograph of a blue from his Ladysmith garden yesterday.\u00a0 Since it shows only the upperside, writes Jeremy Tatum, identification was a bit of a challenge, so I am grateful to Mike Yip for examining it critically and confirming Bruce&#8217;s suspicion and mine that it is a [&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-13914","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\/13914","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=13914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14044,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13914\/revisions\/14044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}