{"id":16229,"date":"2022-08-17T10:42:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T17:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16229"},"modified":"2022-08-17T11:04:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T18:04:51","slug":"2022-august-17-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16229","title":{"rendered":"2022 August 17 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 August 17<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0\u00a0 The Orange Sulphur that I reported yesterday morning just before noon August 16, could not be relocated later in the afternoon.\u00a0 I took Kirsten Mills over there to see if we could get it confirmed or at least photographed but we couldn&#8217;t find it.\u00a0 It is however a great place for dragonflies.\u00a0 We also saw a <strong>Cardinal Meadowhawk<\/strong>, and both <strong>Paddle-tailed <\/strong>and <strong>Blue-eyed Darners<\/strong>.\u00a0 [That\u2019s in addition to the ones Jeff reported yesterday.\u00a0 To his list, writes Jeremy Tatum, I can add <strong>Western Pondhawk.<\/strong>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Val George sends a photograph of a <strong>small ermine moth<\/strong> \u00a0(genus <strong><em>Yponomeuta<\/em><\/strong>) from the wall of his Oak Bay house this morning.<strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>The several species of this genus are difficult to distinguish, the larval foodplants perhaps offering the best (but maybe not watertight) clue.\u00a0 The presence of a nearby apple tree suggests the probability of <em>Y. malinellus<\/em>.<\/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\/2022\/08\/Yponomeuta.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"348\" height=\"241\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Yponomeuta <\/em>sp. (Lep.: Yponomeutidae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 August 17 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0\u00a0 The Orange Sulphur that I reported yesterday morning just before noon August 16, could not be relocated later in the afternoon.\u00a0 I took Kirsten Mills over there to see if we could get it confirmed or at least photographed but we couldn&#8217;t find it.\u00a0 It is however a [&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-16229","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\/16229","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=16229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16231,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16229\/revisions\/16231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}