{"id":19164,"date":"2023-07-02T21:27:22","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T04:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19164"},"modified":"2023-07-02T21:27:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T04:27:22","slug":"2023-july-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19164","title":{"rendered":"2023 July 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

2023 July 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Kirsten Mills writes:\u00a0 Today, July 2, Jeff Gaskin and I went to Nanaimo River Road. We saw a Sylvan<\/strong> Hairstreak<\/strong> and Dun Skipper<\/strong> right before the 8 km mark after the highway turnoff. There was also an Eight-spotted Skimmer<\/strong>. We also went to Kinsol Trestle and saw a Grey Hairstreak<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"\"Eight-spotted Skimmer Libellula forensis <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0\"\"<\/em>Dun Skipper\u00a0 Euphyes vestris <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"Sylvan Hairstreak Satyrium silvinum <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)
\nKirsten Mills<\/p>\n

\"\"Grey Hairstreak Strymon melinus <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae) Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Aziza photographed a Satyr Comma <\/em><\/strong>along the Lochside Trail near Blenkinsop Lake, and a Coryphista meadii <\/em><\/strong>\u00a0at her Saanich home, July 1<\/p>\n

\"\"Satyr Comma Polygonia satyrus <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"Coryphista meadii <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Here are two caterpillars, by Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

\"\"Mourning Cloak\u00a0 Nymphalis antiopa <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)
\nJeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"Vapourer or Rusty Tussock Orgyia antiqua
\n<\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Lymantriinae)
\nJeremy Tatum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2023 July 2 \u00a0\u00a0 Kirsten Mills writes:\u00a0 Today, July 2, Jeff Gaskin and I went to Nanaimo River Road. We saw a Sylvan Hairstreak and Dun Skipper right before the 8 km mark after the highway turnoff. There was also an Eight-spotted Skimmer. We also went to Kinsol Trestle and saw a Grey Hairstreak. Eight-spotted […]<\/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-19164","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\/19164","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=19164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19175,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19164\/revisions\/19175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}