{"id":18866,"date":"2023-06-14T21:28:32","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T04:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=18866"},"modified":"2023-06-14T21:28:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T04:28:32","slug":"2023-june-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=18866","title":{"rendered":"2023 June 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2023 June 14<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Aziza Cooper sends a photograph of a <strong>Painted Lady <\/strong>on a dirt trail below the benches east of the north parking lot at Mount Tolmie, on the morning of June 13.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-18861 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/M-Bfly-Pa-Lady-Mt-Tolmie-1b-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"457\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/M-Bfly-Pa-Lady-Mt-Tolmie-1b-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/M-Bfly-Pa-Lady-Mt-Tolmie-1b.jpg 487w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\" \/><\/strong>Painted Lady <em>Vanessa cardui <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Marie O&#8217;Shaughnessy writes:\u00a0 <strong>Essex Skippers<\/strong>, many (10) seen along Beach Drive at the Hooker&#8217;s Onion patch by the entrance gate of Uplands Park, June 13, 2023, and another along West Saanich Road.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-18863 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Essex-Skipper1g-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Essex-Skipper1g-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Essex-Skipper1g-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Essex-Skipper1g-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Essex-Skipper1g.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/>Essex Skipper <em>Thymelicus lineola <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)<br \/>\nMarie O&#8217;Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-18862 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Essex-Skipper-2-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"451\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Essex-Skipper-2-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Essex-Skipper-2-1024x708.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Essex-Skipper-2-768x531.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Essex-Skipper-2.jpg 1066w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/>Essex Skipper <em>Thymelicus lineola <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)<br \/>\nMarie O&#8217;Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Marie also saw, along West Saanich Road, an <strong>Eight-spotted Skimmer <\/strong>catch a beetle in flight and rest on a perch to munch upon it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-18864 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/marie-dragon-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"465\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/marie-dragon-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/marie-dragon-1024x613.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/marie-dragon-768x460.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/marie-dragon.jpg 1096w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/>Eight-spotted Skimmer <em>Libellula forensis\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 June 14 \u00a0\u00a0 Aziza Cooper sends a photograph of a Painted Lady on a dirt trail below the benches east of the north parking lot at Mount Tolmie, on the morning of June 13. \u00a0\u00a0Painted Lady Vanessa cardui (Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper &nbsp; 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