{"id":16750,"date":"2022-09-21T20:05:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T03:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16750"},"modified":"2022-09-22T19:34:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T02:34:45","slug":"2022-september-21-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16750","title":{"rendered":"2022 September 21 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 September 21 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy and two companions saw<strong> 2<\/strong> <strong>Striped Meadowhawks,\u00a0 1 Blue-eyed Darner, 1 Common Green Darner,\u00a0 <\/strong>and a <strong>Mourning Cloak <\/strong>butterfly in Uplands Park at noon, September 21.<\/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\/09\/Meadowhawk_.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"613\" height=\"409\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Striped Meadowhawk <em>Sympetrum pallipes <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mike Yip photographed a pair of dragonflies <em>in cop.<\/em> at Nanoose,\u00a0 September 19:<\/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\/09\/220919qb-182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"593\" height=\"395\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Striped Meadowhawk <em>Sympetrum pallipes <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/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\/09\/220919qb-180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"596\" height=\"397\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Striped Meadowhawk <em>Sympetrum pallipes <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mike also photographed this tachinid fly.\u00a0 Although it resembles <em>Tachina algens<\/em>, and may indeed be that species, we are grateful to Dr Rob Cannings, who went to the trouble of examining similar specimens of <em>Tachina <\/em>sp in the RBCM, and he concluded that it is not safe to identify the species with certainty, and it is best to leave it at genus level.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/220919qb-157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"429\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Tachina<\/em> sp. (possibly <em>algens)<\/em> (Dip.: Tachinidae)\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ian Cooper sends a photograph of a <strong>damsel bug <\/strong>\u00a0photographed before dawn, September 18 , at View Royal by the Galloping Goose trail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/DSC04505c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"627\" height=\"448\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Nabis <\/em>(possibly <em>roseipennis<\/em>) (Hem.:\u00a0 Nabidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Val George writes:\u00a0 This afternoon, September 21, I went to McIntyre Reservoir to check out the <strong>Orange Sulphurs<\/strong> that have been seen there recently. I saw three and maybe two more &#8211; the additional two may have been the ones I&#8217;d seen earlier.<\/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\/09\/Orange-Sulphur-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"440\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Orange Sulphur <em>Colias eurytheme <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 September 21 evening \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy and two companions saw 2 Striped Meadowhawks,\u00a0 1 Blue-eyed Darner, 1 Common Green Darner,\u00a0 and a Mourning Cloak butterfly in Uplands Park at noon, September 21. Striped Meadowhawk Sympetrum pallipes (Odo.: Libellulidae) &nbsp; Mike Yip photographed a pair of dragonflies in cop. at Nanoose,\u00a0 September 19: &nbsp; Striped [&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-16750","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\/16750","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=16750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16760,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16750\/revisions\/16760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}