{"id":16117,"date":"2022-07-31T17:14:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T00:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16117"},"modified":"2022-08-01T13:31:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T20:31:29","slug":"2022-july-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16117","title":{"rendered":"2022 July 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 July 31<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 From time to time I make mistakes, large or small, or one sort or another, in the Invert Alert postings.\u00a0 I am sure some viewers must notice them.\u00a0 Please, if you spot a mistake of any sort, please do let me know:\u00a0 jtatum at uvic dot ca\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I shall not be in the least annoyed.\u00a0 Quite the opposite, I shall be exceedingly grateful.\u00a0\u00a0 It is a very easy matter for me to make corrections.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Barb McGrenere writes:\u00a0 Yesterday morning, Mike and I walked up Observatory Hill.\u00a0 We saw 1 <strong>Western Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong>, 1 <strong>Cabbage White<\/strong>, 1 tattered <strong>Painted Lady<\/strong> nectaring on purple flowers in the garden area in front of the main office building, and 1 <strong>Lorquin&#8217;s Admiral<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Aziza Cooper sends photographs of a butterfly and a bee from Swan Lake today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/H-Bfly-W-T-Sw-tail-Swan-Lk-1b.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Western Tiger Swallowtail <em>Papilio rutulus <\/em>(Lep.: Papilionidae) Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/H-Insect-bee-peas-Swan-Lk-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"577\" height=\"407\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Bombus fervidus <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Steven Roias writes:\u00a0 The bee is <em>Bombus fervidus californicus<\/em>. According to recent genetic research<em> B.<\/em> <em>californicus<\/em> and <em>B. fervidus<\/em> are the same species, despite morphological differences. Because the western type looks so different, I refer to them as California Bumblebee, but note that they are still <em>B.<\/em> <em>fervidus<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce Whittington sends a photograph of a female <strong>Blue-eyed Darner<\/strong> from Ladysmith.\u00a0 We thank Dr Rob Cannings for the identification.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/DSC4648a.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Rhionaeschna multicolor <\/em>(Odo.: Aeshnidae)\u00a0 Bruce Whittington<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 July 31 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 From time to time I make mistakes, large or small, or one sort or another, in the Invert Alert postings.\u00a0 I am sure some viewers must notice them.\u00a0 Please, if you spot a mistake of any sort, please do let me know:\u00a0 jtatum at uvic dot ca\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I [&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-16117","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\/16117","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=16117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16123,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16117\/revisions\/16123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}