{"id":18457,"date":"2023-05-23T19:02:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T02:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=18457"},"modified":"2023-05-23T19:44:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T02:44:13","slug":"2023-may-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=18457","title":{"rendered":"2023 May 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\"><b>2023 May 23<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy sends photographs of a <b>Cabbage White<\/b> and a <b>Tule Bluet <\/b>from McIntyre reservoir, and a <b>California Darner<\/b> from Mount Tolmie.\u00a0 Thanks to Dr Rob Cannings for identification of the damselfly and dragonfly.\u00a0\u00a0 Of the dragonfly, Dr Cannings writes:\u00a0 It looks like a female with the cerci broken off.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-182.png\" alt=\"image.png\" width=\"510\" height=\"340\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\">Cabbage White\u00a0 <i>Pieris rapae <\/i>(Lep.: Pieridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: 25px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-183.png\" alt=\"image.png\" width=\"557\" height=\"332\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\">Tule Bluet <i>Enallagma carunculatum <\/i>(Odo.: Coenagrionidae)<i><br \/>\n<\/i>\u00a0\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-184.png\" alt=\"image.png\" width=\"514\" height=\"343\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\">California Darner\u00a0 <i>Rhionaeschna californica\u00a0 <\/i>(Odo.: Aeshnidae)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\">Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Val George sends a photograph of a moth from the wall of his Oak Bay house this morning, May 23.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-185.png\" alt=\"image.png\" width=\"511\" height=\"384\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\">Spotted Tiger Moth <i>Lophocampa maculata\u00a0 <\/i>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013Arctiinae)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\">Val George<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum shows a caterpillar found near Blenkinsop Lake:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-186.png\" alt=\"image.png\" width=\"490\" height=\"261\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><i>Orthosia hibisci\u00a0 <\/i>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 May 23 &nbsp; \u00a0\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy sends photographs of a Cabbage White and a Tule Bluet from McIntyre reservoir, and a California Darner from Mount Tolmie.\u00a0 Thanks to Dr Rob Cannings for identification of the damselfly and dragonfly.\u00a0\u00a0 Of the dragonfly, Dr Cannings writes:\u00a0 It looks like a female with the cerci broken off. 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