{"id":16570,"date":"2022-09-07T10:59:25","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T17:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16570"},"modified":"2022-09-07T11:08:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:08:20","slug":"2022-september-7-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16570","title":{"rendered":"2022 September 7 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 September 7 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Marie O&rsquo;Shaughnessy writes:&nbsp; A friend and I were delighted to find a few hovering dragonflies at McIntyre Reservoir yesterday afternoon.&nbsp; We saw a <strong>Common Green Darner<\/strong>. The majority of the dragonflies seen were <strong>Paddle-tailed Darners<\/strong>, &nbsp;and&nbsp; three <strong>Black Saddlebags<\/strong>. Also saw only one &nbsp;<strong>Eight-Spotted Skimmer<\/strong>.<\/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\/09\/Paddle-tailed-Darner-1d-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"542\" height=\"361\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Paddle-tailed Darner <em>Aeshna palmata <\/em>(Odo.: Aeshnidae)&nbsp; Marie O&rsquo;Shaughnessy<\/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\/09\/Paddle-tail-Darner-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"562\" height=\"377\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Paddle-tailed Darner <em>Aeshna palmata <\/em>(Odo.: Aeshnidae)&nbsp; Marie O&rsquo;Shaughnessy<\/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\/09\/8-spotted-Skimmer-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"566\" height=\"377\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Eight-spotted Skimmer <em>Libellula forensis <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)&nbsp; Marie O&rsquo;Shaughnessy<\/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\/09\/Black-Saddlebags.1c-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"366\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Black Saddlebags <em>Tramea lacerata <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)&nbsp; Marie O&rsquo;Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jochen M&ouml;hr writes from Metchosin:&nbsp; Last night three <strong><em>Neoalcis californiaria<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;and at least five <strong><em>Udea<\/em><\/strong><em> <strong>profundalis.<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp; I took only one picture of one of the latter.&nbsp;&nbsp; In addition a <strong><em>Synaxis jubararia<\/em><\/strong> and an <strong><em>Alucita montana<\/em>.<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Alucita-montana-P16905291.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"548\" height=\"314\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Alucita montana <\/em>(Lep.: Alucitidae)&nbsp; Jochen M&ouml;hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Udea-profundalis-P1690520-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"539\" height=\"415\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Udea profundalis <\/em>(Lep.: Crambidae)&nbsp; Jochen M&ouml;hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Tetracis-or-Synaxis-jubararia-P1690526-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"397\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Tetracis jubararia <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Jochen M&ouml;hr<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Two caterpillar pictures from Jeremy &nbsp;Tatum. The first from Rithet&rsquo;s Bog; the second from Swan Lake.<\/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\/09\/yellow-woolly-bear-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"356\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Yellow Woolly Bear <em>Spilosoma virginica&nbsp; <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae &ndash; Arctiinae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/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\/09\/Smerithus-la-full-grown-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"552\" height=\"380\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Eyed Hawk Moth <em>Smerinthus ophthalmica <\/em>(Lep.: Sphingidae) Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 September 7 morning &nbsp;&nbsp; Marie O&rsquo;Shaughnessy writes:&nbsp; A friend and I were delighted to find a few hovering dragonflies at McIntyre Reservoir yesterday afternoon.&nbsp; We saw a Common Green Darner. The majority of the dragonflies seen were Paddle-tailed Darners, &nbsp;and&nbsp; three Black Saddlebags. Also saw only one &nbsp;Eight-Spotted Skimmer. Paddle-tailed Darner Aeshna palmata (Odo.: [&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-16570","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\/16570","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=16570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}