{"id":19271,"date":"2023-07-08T18:11:33","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T01:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19271"},"modified":"2023-07-08T18:11:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T01:11:33","slug":"2023-july-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19271","title":{"rendered":"2023 July 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

2023 July 8<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>We hear from Jeff Gaskin and Kirsten Mills about the numerous dragonflies and butterflies they have been seeing and (Kirsten) photographing:<\/p>\n

Jeff writes:
\nYesterday, July 7, Kirsten and I were at MacIntyre reservoir and saw a Painted Lady<\/strong> as well as 7 species of dragonflies.\u00a0 They included a female Variegated Meadowhawk, 4 or 5 Cardinal Meadowhawks, 5 or 6 Western Pondhawks, a Paddle-tailed Darner, some Blue-eyed Darners, a Common Green Darner, and 15 Eight-spotted Skimmers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today, July 8, at Swan Lake, I saw 2 Satyr Commas<\/strong> on the trail from the parking lot to the Tuesday Pond.\u00a0 Also, I had a total of 39 Lorquin’s Admirals, and 9 Western Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong> along the trail around Swan Lake.<\/p>\n

Dragonflies seen today, at Swan Lake included the following:\u00a0 \u00a0one Black Saddlebags<\/strong> at the south end of the floating boardwalk,\u00a0a Cardinal Meadowhawk, 2 Eight-spotted Skimmers, lots of Blue Dashers, and a few Blue-eyed Darners.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Kirsten writes:
\nJeff Gaskin and I went to MacIntyre Reservoir and the Wallace Road bulb fields yesterday. We saw Blue-eyed Darner, Common Green Darner, Western Pondhawk, Eight-spotted Skimmer, Cardinal Meadowhawk and Variegated Meadowhawk<\/strong>. We also saw Pacific Forktail<\/strong> and Tule Bluets<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Tule Bluet Enallagma carunculatum\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Coenagrionidae)\u00a0 Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n

\"\"Tule Bluet Enallagma carunculatum\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Coenagrionidae)\u00a0 Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n

\"\"Common Green Darner Anax junius\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Aeshnidae)
\nKirsten Mills<\/p>\n

\"\"Cardinal Meadowhawk \u00a0Sympetrum illotum <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n

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\"\"Cardinal Meadowhawk \u00a0Sympetrum illotum <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n

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\"\"Variegated Meadowhawk\u00a0 Sympetrum corruptum
\n<\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)
\nKirsten Mills<\/p>\n

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

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\"\"Western Pondhawk\u00a0 Erythemis collocata <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 The moth below was reared from a caterpillar from Spectacle Lake.\u00a0 At first glance I thought the adult moth closely resembled Eupithecia annulata<\/em>.\u00a0 I am grateful to Libby Avis, who pointed out that it is also a good fit for E. graefii<\/em>, and that its foodplant (Salal) also suggests E. graefii<\/em>, which is usually recorded on Ericaceae.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Probably Eupithecia graefii\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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\"\"Probably Eupithecia graefii\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2023 July 8 \u00a0\u00a0 We hear from Jeff Gaskin and Kirsten Mills about the numerous dragonflies and butterflies they have been seeing and (Kirsten) photographing: Jeff writes: Yesterday, July 7, Kirsten and I were at MacIntyre reservoir and saw a Painted Lady as well as 7 species of dragonflies.\u00a0 They included a female Variegated Meadowhawk, […]<\/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-19271","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\/19271","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=19271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19274,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19271\/revisions\/19274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}