{"id":19522,"date":"2023-07-28T20:14:37","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T03:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19522"},"modified":"2023-07-28T20:14:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T03:14:37","slug":"2023-july-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19522","title":{"rendered":"2023 July 28"},"content":{"rendered":"

2023 July 28<\/strong><\/p>\n

There was no Invert Alert on July 27.<\/p>\n

Teasel at McIntyre Reservoir<\/span>.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 When I visited the reservoir on July 2 (with the VNHS Butterfly Walk), there was a huge amount of Teasel, but most of it was not yet in flower.\u00a0 Yesterday, July 27, I went there again hoping that by now it was in flower.\u00a0 Instead, I discovered that (apart from a few individual plants) the flowering was already well past, with most of the plants having gone to seed.\u00a0 I wonder if the short flowering season was connected somehow with the long, hot, dry spell that we have been experiencing.\u00a0 In any case, it looks as though we can\u2019t expect great numbers of butterflies there in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

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Cheryl Hoyle photographed this spider at View Royal on July 25.\u00a0 Her suggestion that it is Enoplognatha ovata <\/em><\/strong>proved correct.\u00a0 Dr Robb Bennett writes: I’m pretty sure that it is one of the morphs of Enoplognatha ovata<\/em>. The most common morphs usually have some amount of red coloration on the dorsal abdomen. I think this linear spotted form is less common. The spiders themselves are abundant.<\/p>\n

\"\"Enoplognatha ovata<\/em>\u00a0(Ara.: Theridiidae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n

\"\"Enoplognatha ovata<\/em>\u00a0(Ara.: Theridiidae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n

Val George photographed these two moths at his Oak Bay home today:<\/p>\n

\"\"Scallopshell\u00a0 Rheumaptera undulata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)
\nVal George<\/p>\n

\"\"Vitula serratilineella <\/em>(Lep.: Pyralidae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n

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2023 July 28 There was no Invert Alert on July 27. Teasel at McIntyre Reservoir.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 When I visited the reservoir on July 2 (with the VNHS Butterfly Walk), there was a huge amount of Teasel, but most of it was not yet in flower.\u00a0 Yesterday, July 27, I went there again hoping […]<\/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-19522","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\/19522","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=19522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19523,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19522\/revisions\/19523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}