{"id":16612,"date":"2022-09-09T17:56:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T00:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16612"},"modified":"2022-09-09T17:57:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T00:57:23","slug":"2022-september-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16612","title":{"rendered":"2022 September 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 September 9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Kirsten Mills found a <strong>Lorquin&rsquo;s Admiral<\/strong> at King&rsquo;s Pond&nbsp; yesterday, September 8.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Aziza Cooper shows photographs of a <strong>White-faced Meadowhawk <\/strong>at Fisher Trail, Langford, September 6 (the first two photographs) and another of the same species on Observatory Hill, September 8 (third photograph).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/E-Dragonfly-red-Fisher-Trail-1-Copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"535\" height=\"401\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">White-faced Meadowhawk <em>Sympetrum obtrusum <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae) Aziza Cooper<\/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\/E-Dragonfly-head-on-Fisher-Trail-1-Copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"386\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">White-faced Meadowhawk <em>Sympetrum obtrusum <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae) Aziza Cooper<\/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\/E-Dragonfly-red-Obs-Hill-1-Copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"543\" height=\"407\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">White-faced Meadowhawk <em>Sympetrum obtrusum <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae) Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Val George writes:&nbsp; Yesterday at Witty&#8217;s Lagoon I witnessed a caterpillar behaviour I hadn&#8217;t seen before and wondered whether it&#8217;s normal. An <strong>Isabella Tiger Moth<\/strong> caterpillar (<strong>Banded Woolly<\/strong> <strong>Bear <em>Pyrrharctia isabella<\/em><\/strong>) was swimming across a pool of water to get to the other side.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve seen caterpillars that have fallen into water and struggling to get out, but this one was near the edge of the pool and was purposefully swimming with a pretty good imitation of a front crawl to get to the other side about five or six feet away &#8211; it did make it and crawled out on dry land.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 September 9 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Kirsten Mills found a Lorquin&rsquo;s Admiral at King&rsquo;s Pond&nbsp; yesterday, September 8. &nbsp;&nbsp; Aziza Cooper shows photographs of a White-faced Meadowhawk at Fisher Trail, Langford, September 6 (the first two photographs) and another of the same species on Observatory Hill, September 8 (third photograph).&nbsp; White-faced Meadowhawk Sympetrum obtrusum (Odo.: Libellulidae) Aziza [&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-16612","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\/16612","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=16612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}