{"id":15043,"date":"2021-10-03T17:16:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T00:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15043"},"modified":"2021-10-09T11:56:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T18:56:28","slug":"2021-october-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15043","title":{"rendered":"2021 October 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 October 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Yesterday (October 2) Kate Woods and Rosemary Jorna found another <strong>American Lady<\/strong>, on the summit of the Matterhorn, which, by the way, is not in Switzerland\/Italy, but is in the Sooke Hills.\u00a0 I am not sure, until I look at the records, but I think Invert Alert may have had more American Ladies than Painted Ladies this year.\u00a0\u00a0 On the other hand, it is a long time since we have had a West Coast Lady.<\/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\/10\/American-lady1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"667\" height=\"516\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">American Lady <em>Vanessa virginiensis <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Kate Woods<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Also on October 2, Mr E photographed a <strong>Woolly Aphid <\/strong>near the beach at Mount Douglas Park, where several were hovering.<\/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\/10\/Photo_1633291033012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"655\" height=\"510\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Woolly Aphid.\u00a0 Probably <em>Adelges <\/em>sp.\u00a0 (Hem.: Adelgidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Photo_1633291034738.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"698\" height=\"498\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Woolly Aphid.\u00a0 Probably <em>Adelges <\/em>sp.\u00a0 (Hem.: Adelgidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>October is the month when we see Banded Woolly Bears.\u00a0 I saw dozens of squashed ones (writes Jeremy Tatum) along the Lochside Trail this afternoon \u2013 and \u00a0I remember seeing similar numbers at Panama Flats last year.\u00a0 I think there are far more corpses than would occur from accidental treading by pedestrians and bicyclists.\u00a0 I think people are conditioned to think of insects as pests to be killed on sight, and I believe that the squashed corpses that we see are deliberately trodden upon by pedestrians.<\/p>\n<p>It would be nice if some viewer were able to get a nice photo of a living Banded Woolly Bear for Invert Alert.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 October 3 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yesterday (October 2) Kate Woods and Rosemary Jorna found another American Lady, on the summit of the Matterhorn, which, by the way, is not in Switzerland\/Italy, but is in the Sooke Hills.\u00a0 I am not sure, until I look at the records, but I think Invert Alert may have had more [&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-15043","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\/15043","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=15043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15082,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15043\/revisions\/15082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}