{"id":16242,"date":"2022-08-19T21:58:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T04:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16242"},"modified":"2022-08-20T11:56:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T18:56:48","slug":"2022-august-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16242","title":{"rendered":"2022 August 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 August 19<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Cheryl Hoyle sends two photographs from View Royal, August 18.\u00a0 Thanks to Libby Avis for identifying the moth as a recent introduction from Europe.<\/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\/DSC_0177-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"524\" height=\"425\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Mesapamea secalis <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DSC_0175-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"496\" height=\"390\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Male <em>Araneus diadematus <\/em>(Ara.: Araneidae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jochen M\u00f6hr sends a photograph of <strong><em>Pero <\/em>sp. <\/strong>from Metchosin this morning.\u00a0\u00a0 This is a difficult genus, but at present it seems most closely to resemble <strong><em>P. mizon<\/em>.<\/strong><\/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\/P1690222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"557\" height=\"418\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Pero\u00a0<\/em><em>mizon<\/em> (Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rosemay Jorna sends photographs of a <strong>Pacific Spiketail <\/strong>\u00a0from Sooke Potholes Regional Park today.\u00a0 It will be noticed that this one has blue eyes, whereas Ron Flower\u2019s one, shown on August 15, had brown eyes.\u00a0 We think that the blue-eyed one is a male, and the brown-eyed one is a female.<\/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\/2022\/08\/P8194031.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"514\" height=\"386\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Pacific Spiketail <em>Cordulegaster dorsalis <\/em>(Odo.: Cordulegastridae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/P8194038.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"774\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Pacific Spiketail <em>Cordulegaster dorsalis <\/em>(Odo.: Cordulegastridae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/P8194034.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"369\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Pacific Spiketail <em>Cordulegaster dorsalis <\/em>(Odo.: Cordulegastridae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum reports that he saw a <strong>Western Tiger Swallowtail <\/strong>along Royal Oak Drive today.<\/p>\n<p>Can other viewers pass this date, please?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 August 19 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle sends two photographs from View Royal, August 18.\u00a0 Thanks to Libby Avis for identifying the moth as a recent introduction from Europe. &nbsp; Mesapamea secalis (Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle Male Araneus diadematus (Ara.: Araneidae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle &nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr sends a photograph of Pero sp. from Metchosin this morning.\u00a0\u00a0 [&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-16242","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\/16242","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=16242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16251,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16242\/revisions\/16251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}