{"id":19400,"date":"2023-07-19T21:11:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T04:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19400"},"modified":"2023-07-19T21:11:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T04:11:05","slug":"2023-july-19-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19400","title":{"rendered":"2023 July 19 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"

2023 July 19 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aziza Cooper writes:\u00a0 On July 16, I visited McIntyre Reservoir and found this dragonfly and moth. I saw about 15 Cabbage Whites<\/strong> and one Western Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong> butterfly.<\/p>\n

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

\"\"Autographa californica <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae – Plusiinae) Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Aziza continues:\u00a0 On July 17, at Mount Tolmie about 6:30 pm, there were four Painted Ladies<\/strong> and one Red<\/strong> Admiral<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Painted Lady Vanessa cardui\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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\"\"Red Admiral\u00a0 Vanessa atalanta\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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On July 18, at Island View Beach, Aziza saw an Anise Swallowtail<\/strong>, 3 Western Tiger Swallowtails,<\/strong> and various Cabbage Butterflies and skippers at Island View Beach park. On the First Nations Land there was a Grey Hairstreak<\/strong> and a black and white grasshopper.<\/p>\n

For the identification of the grasshopper, we are grateful to James Miskelly, who writes:\u00a0 This one is Trimerotropis pallidipennis<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 They live in dry\u00a0grasslands in\u00a0interior\u00a0BC, but in our area they’re strongly associated with coastal sand.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Grey Hairstreak Strymon melinus\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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\"\"Trimerotropis pallidipennis\u00a0 <\/em>(Orth.: Acrididae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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\"\"Rose Leaf Gall Diploletis polita\u00a0 <\/em>(Hym.: Cynipidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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On July 19 Aziza reports two Red Admirals<\/strong>, three Painted Ladies<\/strong>, two Anise Swallowtails <\/strong>and a Pale Tiger Swallowtail <\/strong>\u00a0from Mount Douglas, and Jeremy Tatum reports two Red Admirals<\/strong> and two Painted Ladies<\/strong> from Mount Tolmie.<\/p>\n

Western Tiger Swallowtails\u00a0 and Lorquin\u2019s Admirals <\/strong>are still being seen generally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2023 July 19 evening Aziza Cooper writes:\u00a0 On July 16, I visited McIntyre Reservoir and found this dragonfly and moth. I saw about 15 Cabbage Whites and one Western Tiger Swallowtail butterfly. Eight-spotted Skimmer Libellula forensis (Odo.: Libellulidae) Aziza Cooper Autographa californica (Lep.: Noctuidae – Plusiinae) Aziza Cooper   Aziza continues:\u00a0 On July 17, at […]<\/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-19400","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\/19400","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=19400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19401,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19400\/revisions\/19401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}