{"id":18705,"date":"2023-06-04T18:04:49","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T01:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=18705"},"modified":"2023-06-04T18:04:49","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T01:04:49","slug":"2023-june-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=18705","title":{"rendered":"2023 June 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2023 June 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0 Today I decided to go to Swan Lake.\u00a0 I saw four species including a <strong>Mourning Cloak<\/strong> (still in good condition), <strong>1 Cabbage White<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>6 Western Tiger Swallowtails <\/strong>and<strong> 8 Lorquin&#8217;s Admirals<\/strong>. That&#8217;s pretty good considering I only covered half of the lake&#8217;s trail.\u00a0 Of the dragonflies, I saw a few <strong>Blue-eyed <\/strong>and<strong> California Darners,\u00a01 Common Green Darner, 9 Blue Dashers,\u00a03 Cardinal Meadowhawks,\u00a02 Western Pondhawks, <\/strong>and a few<strong> Eight-spotted Skimmers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy writes:\u00a0 I found this lovely <strong>Cardinal Meadowhawk<\/strong> at one of the ponds in Outerbridge Park today. \u00a0 Butterflies seen here today were, <strong>5 Cabbage Whites, 4 Western Tiger Swallowtails, 1 Lorquin\u2019s Admiral<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 Dr Rob Cannings, in his book <em>Dragonflies of British Columbia and the Yukon<\/em>, writes:\u00a0 \u201cMales\u2026return again and again to a favorite twig\u2026, perching with wings cocked downward, scarlet abdomen glowing in the Sun.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Marie\u2019s Cardinal appears to have read the book conscientiously.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18707 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Cardinal-Meadowhark2a-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"443\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Cardinal-Meadowhark2a-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Cardinal-Meadowhark2a.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/strong>Cardinal Meadowhawk <em>Sympetrum illotum <\/em>(Odo.:\u00a0 Libellulidae)<br \/>\nMarie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18708 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Cardinal-Meadowhark2l-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"453\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Cardinal-Meadowhark2l-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Cardinal-Meadowhark2l.jpg 564w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 453px) 100vw, 453px\" \/>Cardinal Meadowhawk <em>Sympetrum illotum <\/em>(Odo.:\u00a0 Libellulidae)<br \/>\nMarie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p>The VNHS held its monthly Butterfly Walk today. We hope to post a report on it, with perhaps some photographs, tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 June 4 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0 Today I decided to go to Swan Lake.\u00a0 I saw four species including a Mourning Cloak (still in good condition), 1 Cabbage White,\u00a06 Western Tiger Swallowtails and 8 Lorquin&#8217;s Admirals. That&#8217;s pretty good considering I only covered half of the lake&#8217;s trail.\u00a0 Of the dragonflies, I saw 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-18705","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\/18705","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=18705"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18712,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18705\/revisions\/18712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}