{"id":16226,"date":"2022-08-16T14:46:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T21:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16226"},"modified":"2022-08-16T14:47:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T21:47:30","slug":"2022-august-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16226","title":{"rendered":"2022 August 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 August 16<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Colias Alert!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeff Gaskin writes today:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>There was an <strong>Orange Sulphur<\/strong> at McIntyre Road&nbsp; reservoir on the west side of the reservoir about half way along.&nbsp; I&#8217;m going back there this afternoon with Kirsten to see if we can get any photos. I also found 1 or 2 <strong>Anise Swallowtails<\/strong> in the same vicinity as the sulphur.&nbsp; Also, here were 2 or 3 Black Saddlebags, <strong>Blue Dashers, Eight Spotted Skimmers <\/strong>and<strong> Blue-eyed Darners<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Cheryl Hoyle sends a photograph of a <strong>Banana Slug<\/strong> from Latoria Creek Park and a fly from View Royal, August 15.&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I don&rsquo;t think I can do better with the fly than to suggest that it is probably&nbsp; (not certain!) one of the smaller crane flies of the Family Tipulidae.&nbsp; If anyone out there can do better than that, please let us know! jtatum at uvic dot ca<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DSC_0089-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"476\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Banana Slug <em>Ariolimax columbianus <\/em>(Pul.: Arionidae) Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DSC_0125-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"535\" height=\"490\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Probably a small crane fly (Dip.: Tipulidae)&nbsp; Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 August 16 &nbsp;Colias Alert! &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeff Gaskin writes today: &nbsp;&nbsp; There was an Orange Sulphur at McIntyre Road&nbsp; reservoir on the west side of the reservoir about half way along.&nbsp; I&#8217;m going back there this afternoon with Kirsten to see if we can get any photos. I also found 1 or 2 Anise Swallowtails [&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-16226","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\/16226","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=16226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}