{"id":14705,"date":"2021-08-05T09:22:36","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T16:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14705"},"modified":"2021-08-06T14:42:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T21:42:00","slug":"2021-august-5-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14705","title":{"rendered":"2021 August 5 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 August 5 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Colias alert!\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>From Ron Flower:\u00a0\u00a0 On Wednesday August\u00a0 4 we went to McIntyre reservoir (McIntyre Road, Central Saanich) around 1:00 pm. and saw a<strong> Sulphur <\/strong>butterfly, probably an <strong>Orange<\/strong>. Unfortunately we could not catch up with it, so no photo. Nothing like chasing through the Teasel with shorts on!<\/p>\n<p>Aziza Cooper sends photographs of two moths from the Swan Lake Nature House, August 3.\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Hey!\u00a0 I think that first one is the same individual that I photographed and posted yesterday!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/B-Moth-Swan-Lk-1b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"444\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Leucania <\/em>sp.(probably <em>farcta <\/em>or <em>oregona<\/em>) (Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Next, a nice plusiine \u2013 a new one for this site.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/B-Moth-Swan-Lk-2b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"582\" height=\"428\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Plusia nichollae <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae \u2013 Plusiinae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum writes that the <strong>Satyr Comma <\/strong>caterpillar shown on July 29 has now pupated:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_4042.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"651\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Satyr Comma <em>Polygonia satyrus <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Gates sends a photograph of a male <strong>Eight-spotted Skimmer<\/strong> from Highland Pacific Golf Course, August 4.\u00a0 For a female, see tomorrow&#8217;s posting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_1723-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"682\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Male Eight-spotted Skimmer <em>Libellula forensis <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Bryan Gates<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 August 5 morning \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Colias alert!\u00a0\u00a0 From Ron Flower:\u00a0\u00a0 On Wednesday August\u00a0 4 we went to McIntyre reservoir (McIntyre Road, Central Saanich) around 1:00 pm. and saw a Sulphur butterfly, probably an Orange. Unfortunately we could not catch up with it, so no photo. Nothing like chasing through the Teasel with shorts on! Aziza [&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-14705","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\/14705","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=14705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14711,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14705\/revisions\/14711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}