{"id":19439,"date":"2023-07-22T21:41:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T04:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19439"},"modified":"2023-07-22T21:41:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T04:41:52","slug":"2023-july-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19439","title":{"rendered":"2023 July 22"},"content":{"rendered":"

2023 July 22<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0 On July 21 on Christmas Hill between 5 and 6 p.m. I saw the following butterflies\u00a0 :\u00a0 \u00a01 Red Admiral, 3 Painted Ladies, 2 Anise Swallowtails, 1 Lorquin’s Admiral,\u00a0 3 Western Tiger Swallowtails,\u00a0 2 Cabbage Whites\u00a0 and 5 Woodland Skippers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Kirsten Mills photographed a Blue Dasher<\/strong> at Gowlland-Tod Park and a Blue-eyed Darner<\/strong> at Francis\/King Park parking lot today, July 22.\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks to Dr Rob Cannings for the identification of the darner.<\/p>\n

\"\"Blue Dasher Pachydiplax longipennis <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)
\nKirsten Mills<\/p>\n

\"\"Female Blue-eyed Darner Rhionaeschna multicolor
\n<\/em>(Odo.: Aeshnidae)
\nKirsten Mills<\/p>\n

Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy writes:\u00a0 A 90 minute walk around Outerbridge Park revealed<\/p>\n

5 Western Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong> (one appeared quite a bit bigger than the rest. \u00a0\u00a0[Jeremy Tatum writes: Females are larger than the males] )
\n2 Lorquin\u2019s Admiral<\/strong>s
\n12 Cabbage Whites
\n<\/strong>7 skippers. <\/strong>Woodland \u00a0possibly.\u00a0 <\/strong>[Jeremy Tatum writes: Probably Woodland Skippers<\/strong> at this time of year.]<\/p>\n

Dragonflies were scarce.<\/p>\n

\"\"Four-spotted Skimmer Libellula quadrimaculata
\n<\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)
\nMarie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

\"\"Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

Marie writes:\u00a0 Here\u2019s in interesting insect – seen in Parksville the other day\u00a0when I was up there.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"\"Sand Wasp Bembix <\/em>(probably americana<\/em>)\u00a0 (Hym.: Crabronidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 The Red Admiral <\/strong>caterpillar shown on July 4 evening produced a gorgeous adult butterfly today.\u00a0 I released it in Playfair Park.\u00a0 It was anxious to get out and fly, so it permitted me only a brief underside photograph.<\/p>\n

\"\"Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)
\nJeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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2023 July 22 \u00a0 Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0 On July 21 on Christmas Hill between 5 and 6 p.m. I saw the following butterflies\u00a0 :\u00a0 \u00a01 Red Admiral, 3 Painted Ladies, 2 Anise Swallowtails, 1 Lorquin’s Admiral,\u00a0 3 Western Tiger Swallowtails,\u00a0 2 Cabbage Whites\u00a0 and 5 Woodland Skippers. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Kirsten Mills photographed a Blue Dasher […]<\/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-19439","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\/19439","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=19439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19440,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19439\/revisions\/19440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}