{"id":16388,"date":"2022-08-25T20:43:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T03:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16388"},"modified":"2022-08-26T14:25:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T21:25:44","slug":"2022-august-25-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16388","title":{"rendered":"2022 August 25 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 August 25 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeff Gaskin reports:\u00a0 Yesterday, August 24, there was a <strong>Grey Hairstreak<\/strong> at Panama Flats seen along the central dyke closest to Interurban Road.\u00a0 This is only the second report of this butterfly in Invert Alert this year.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Cooper sends a group of photographs taken recently in the Victoria area of several pollinating insects.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DSC02379c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"401\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Hover fly <em>Eupeodes fumipennis <\/em>(Dip.: Syrphidae) on Chicory \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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\/DSC02388c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"508\" height=\"342\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Eristalis arbustorum\u00a0 <\/em>(Dip.: Syrphidae) on Queen Anne\u2019s Lace (Wild Carrot) \u00a0\u00a0Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We are grateful to Dr J. Skevington for help with the identification of these two syrphids.<\/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\/2022\/08\/DSC02697c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"381\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Resin Bee <em>Dianthidium <\/em>sp. (Hym.: Megachilidae) on Gumweed\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/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\/2022\/08\/DSC02722c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"352\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Leafcutter bee <em>Megachile <\/em>(possibly <em>perihirta<\/em>) (Hym.: Megachilidae) on Perennial Pea<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ian Cooper<\/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\/2022\/08\/DSC02618c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"345\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Woodland Skipper <em>Ochlodes sylvanoides <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae) on Douglas Aster<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ian Cooper<\/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\/DSC02976cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"391\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Small Carpenter Bee <em>Ceratina <\/em>sp. (Hym.: Apidae) on probably Spear Mint<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 August 25 evening \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jeff Gaskin reports:\u00a0 Yesterday, August 24, there was a Grey Hairstreak at Panama Flats seen along the central dyke closest to Interurban Road.\u00a0 This is only the second report of this butterfly in Invert Alert this year. Ian Cooper sends a group of photographs taken recently in the Victoria area [&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-16388","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\/16388","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=16388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16396,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16388\/revisions\/16396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}