{"id":19356,"date":"2023-07-16T20:18:25","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T03:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19356"},"modified":"2023-07-16T20:18:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T03:18:25","slug":"2023-july-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19356","title":{"rendered":"2023 July 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2023 July 16<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy writes:\u00a0 I was in Uplands Park today for a short while looking for butterflies. Since it was too hot, I was on my way out and a <strong>Black Saddlebags<\/strong> passed by. It was the only dragonfly I saw.\u00a0\u00a0 Butterflies were<\/p>\n<p><strong>2 Lorquin\u2019s Admirals<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>1 Cabbage White<br \/>\n1<\/strong><strong> Western Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Jeremy Tatum responds:\u00a0 Yes, I looked for butterflies on the UVic campus today, and all I saw were<\/p>\n<p><strong>2 Lorquin\u2019s Admirals<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>6 Cabbage Whites<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>3 Western Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, it is still probably worth looking in the late afternoons for hill-topping nymphalids on Mount Tolmie, Mount Douglas, Christmas Hill and Highrock Hill. (Bear Hill and Mount Newton may be too heavily forested, though you never know.)<\/p>\n<p>Here is Marie\u2019s photograph of a <strong>Black Saddlebags<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19355 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/saddlebags-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/saddlebags-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/saddlebags-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/saddlebags-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/saddlebags.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/>Black Saddlebags <em>Tramia lacerata <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)<br \/>\nMarie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 July 16 \u00a0\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy writes:\u00a0 I was in Uplands Park today for a short while looking for butterflies. Since it was too hot, I was on my way out and a Black Saddlebags passed by. It was the only dragonfly I saw.\u00a0\u00a0 Butterflies were 2 Lorquin\u2019s Admirals 1 Cabbage White 1 Western Tiger [&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-19356","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\/19356","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=19356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19357,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19356\/revisions\/19357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}