{"id":14712,"date":"2021-08-06T16:02:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T23:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14712"},"modified":"2021-08-06T16:06:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T23:06:43","slug":"2021-august-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14712","title":{"rendered":"2021 August 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 August 6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jody Wells sends pictures of dragonflies and a drone fly from McIntyre Reservoir and Pendray Farm in the last few&nbsp; days.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/DSCN6928.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"723\" height=\"518\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Drone Fly <em>Eristalis <\/em>sp.&nbsp; (Dip.: Syrphidae)&nbsp; Jody Wells<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Next is a picture of a female <strong>Eight-spotted Skimmer.&nbsp; <\/strong>Compare with Bryan Gates&rsquo;s picture of a male in yesterday morning&rsquo;s posting.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/DSCN6344-maybe-8-spot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"682\" height=\"501\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Female Eight-spotted Skimmer <em>Libellula forensis <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae) Jody Wells<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Now a <strong>Black Saddlebags <\/strong>from McIntyre reservoir.&nbsp; They seem to be unusually common in the last two years &ndash; especially this year.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/DSCN6927-saddlebags.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"693\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Black Saddlebags <em>Tramea lacerata <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)&nbsp; Jody Wells<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; One supposes that this, too, is a <strong>Black Saddlebags<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/DSCN6555.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"687\" height=\"515\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Black Saddlebags <em>Tramea lacerata <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)&nbsp; Jody Wells<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/DSCN6370-maybe-western-meadowhawk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"695\" height=\"490\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Female Western Pondhawk <em>Erythemis collocata <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)&nbsp; Jody Wells<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 August 6 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jody Wells sends pictures of dragonflies and a drone fly from McIntyre Reservoir and Pendray Farm in the last few&nbsp; days. Drone Fly Eristalis sp.&nbsp; (Dip.: Syrphidae)&nbsp; Jody Wells &nbsp;&nbsp; Next is a picture of a female Eight-spotted Skimmer.&nbsp; Compare with Bryan Gates&rsquo;s picture of a male in yesterday morning&rsquo;s [&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-14712","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\/14712","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=14712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}