{"id":19499,"date":"2023-07-25T19:51:32","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T02:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19499"},"modified":"2023-07-30T09:22:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T16:22:05","slug":"2023-july-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19499","title":{"rendered":"2023 July 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2023 July 25<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy photographed this <strong>White-faced <\/strong>(also called <strong>Bald-faced<\/strong>)<strong> Hornet <\/strong>at Government House on July 21:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19501 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/marie-wasp-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"496\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/marie-wasp-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/marie-wasp.jpg 471w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><em>Dolichovespula maculata\u00a0 <\/em>(Hym.: Vespidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cheryl Hoyle photographed these two insects in View Royal today, July 25.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19500 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/DSC_1334-2-300x142.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/DSC_1334-2-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/DSC_1334-2-1024x483.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/DSC_1334-2-768x362.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/DSC_1334-2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/>Pacific Forktail <em>Ischnura cervula <\/em>(Odo.:\u00a0 Coenagrionidae)<br \/>\nCheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I asked Dr Cannings: &#8220;What happens when you can&#8217;t see whether or not there are four dots?&#8221;.\u00a0 Dr Cannings replied: &#8220;Seems to me it\u2019s one of those blue female <em>Ischnura<\/em> <em>cervula<\/em> individuals with the thoracic stripes unbroken, although it\u2019s hard to see the top of the thorax well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19502 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/DSC_1154-2-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/DSC_1154-2-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/DSC_1154-2-1024x627.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/DSC_1154-2-768x470.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/DSC_1154-2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/strong>Bee fly, probably <em>Hemipenthes<\/em> sp. (Dip.: Bombyliidae) \u00a0\u00a0Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 July 25 \u00a0\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy photographed this White-faced (also called Bald-faced) Hornet at Government House on July 21: Dolichovespula maculata\u00a0 (Hym.: Vespidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy &nbsp; Cheryl Hoyle photographed these two insects in View Royal today, July 25. Pacific Forktail Ischnura cervula (Odo.:\u00a0 Coenagrionidae) Cheryl Hoyle Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I asked Dr Cannings: &#8220;What happens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19499","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=19499"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19542,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19499\/revisions\/19542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}