{"id":18658,"date":"2023-06-01T09:48:20","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T16:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=18658"},"modified":"2023-06-01T09:48:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T16:48:20","slug":"2023-june-1-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=18658","title":{"rendered":"2023 June 1 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2023 June 1 morning<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy sends photographs, taken on May 30, of a <strong>Lorquin\u2019s Admiral<\/strong> near the Lochside Drive pig farm and an <strong>Eight-spotted Skimmer<\/strong> from McIntyre Reservoir.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18657 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/lorq-marie-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/lorq-marie-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/lorq-marie-1024x653.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/lorq-marie-768x490.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/lorq-marie.jpg 1138w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/>Lorquin\u2019s Admiral <em>Limenitis lorquini\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.:\u00a0 Nymphalidae)<br \/>\nMarie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18656\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Eight-skimmer-Marie-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Eight-skimmer-Marie-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Eight-skimmer-Marie-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Eight-skimmer-Marie-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Eight-skimmer-Marie.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><br \/>\nEight-spotted Skimmer <em>Libellula forensis <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)<br \/>\nMarie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I recently made a bad mistake (since corrected) in mistaking a libellulid for an aeshnid.\u00a0\u00a0 Dr Rob Cannings offers the following hint (not a sharp, invariable rule, but pretty good most of the time):\u00a0 Aeshnidae species usually perch vertically, hanging down (not all do, e.g. <em>Aeshna sitchensis<\/em> often sits flat on ground); Libellulidae species often perch horizontally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 June 1 morning \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy sends photographs, taken on May 30, of a Lorquin\u2019s Admiral near the Lochside Drive pig farm and an Eight-spotted Skimmer from McIntyre Reservoir. \u00a0 Lorquin\u2019s Admiral Limenitis lorquini\u00a0 (Lep.:\u00a0 Nymphalidae) Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy Eight-spotted Skimmer Libellula forensis (Odo.: Libellulidae) Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy &nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I recently made a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18658","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\/18658","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18658"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18662,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18658\/revisions\/18662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}