{"id":16479,"date":"2022-08-31T20:29:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T03:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16479"},"modified":"2022-09-01T17:53:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T00:53:13","slug":"2022-august-31-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16479","title":{"rendered":"2022 August 31 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 August 31 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0 Today, August 31, Kirsten Mills just found a late <strong>Western Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong> in Browning Park.\u00a0 This is a small park near Hillside Centre.\u00a0 Jeff adds: \u00a0I&#8217;m pretty sure I saw a<strong> Black<\/strong> <strong>Saddlebags<\/strong> dragonfly on the Galloping Goose trail in Colwood on August 26.\u00a0 It was seen on the trail between Aldeane Avenue or the entrance to Royal Roads University and Ocean Boulevard.\u00a0 Also, at the pond at the end of Fisher&#8217;s Trail today, August 31, there were a number of <strong>Blue-eyed Darners<\/strong> and one or two <strong>Paddle-tailed Darners<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Cooper writes: Here are a few more classic pollinators, all photographed within the last couple of weeks along the Galloping Goose trail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DSC02891c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"561\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Honey Bee \u00a0<em>Apis mellifera<\/em> (Hym.: Apidae) on wild spearmint.\u00a0 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\/DSC02921c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"565\" height=\"424\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0European Paper Wasp <em>Polistes dominula<\/em> (Hym.: Vespidae) on Queen Anne\u2019s Lace.<\/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\/DSC03227c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"552\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Bald-faced hornet \u00a0<em>Dolichovespula maculata <\/em>(Hym.: Vespidae) on Snowberry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\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\/DSC03040c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"543\" height=\"474\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Woodland Skipper &#8211; <em>Ochlodes sylvanoides<\/em> (Lep.: Hesperiidae) on wild spearmint.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ian 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\/08\/DSC02812c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"385\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Megachile<\/em> (possibly <em>perihirta<\/em>) \u00a0(Hym.:Megachilidae) on <em>Lathyrus<\/em>.\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"postie-attachments\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 August 31 evening \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0 Today, August 31, Kirsten Mills just found a late Western Tiger Swallowtail in Browning Park.\u00a0 This is a small park near Hillside Centre.\u00a0 Jeff adds: \u00a0I&#8217;m pretty sure I saw a Black Saddlebags dragonfly on the Galloping Goose trail in Colwood on August 26.\u00a0 It was seen [&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-16479","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\/16479","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=16479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16486,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16479\/revisions\/16486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}