{"id":19555,"date":"2023-07-31T19:36:29","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T02:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19555"},"modified":"2023-08-15T15:14:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T22:14:50","slug":"2023-july-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19555","title":{"rendered":"2023 July 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2023 July 31<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>There was no Invert Alert on July 30.\u00a0 Today, however, is another day.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce Whittington sends photographs, from Ladysmith on July 28, of a <strong>Lorquin\u2019s Admiral<\/strong> apparently \u201cnectaring\u201d on sapsucker drillings, and a <strong>Yellow-faced Bumble Bee.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19550\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19550\" style=\"width: 473px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/bruce-Lorquin-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/bruce-Lorquin-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/bruce-Lorquin-1024x727.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/bruce-Lorquin-768x545.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/bruce-Lorquin.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19550\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Limenitis lorquini <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Bruce Whittington<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19549\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19549\" style=\"width: 498px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19549\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Bruce-bee-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Bruce-bee-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Bruce-bee-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Bruce-bee.jpg 957w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19549\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bombus vosnesenskii\u00a0 <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Bruce Whittington<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Also, we missed two photographs from Bruce in early June in Ladysmith, and we post them belatedly now.\u00a0 The first is an adult <strong>Sculptured Pine-borer Beetle<\/strong>.\u00a0 The second is a beetle larva which <em>may<\/em> be the same species, but we are not certain of this.\u00a0 Also, in that photograph the sharp-eyed will see another insect larva.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19547 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Adult-beetle-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Adult-beetle-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Adult-beetle-812x1024.jpg 812w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Adult-beetle-768x968.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Adult-beetle.jpg 952w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><em>Chalcophora angulicollis <\/em>(Col.: Buprestidae)<br \/>\nBruce Whittington<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19548 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Beetle-larva-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"488\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Beetle-larva-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Beetle-larva-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Beetle-larva-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Beetle-larva.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/>Beetle larva (<em><u>possibly<\/u><\/em> <em>Chalcophora angulicollis<\/em>)<br \/>\nBruce Whittington<\/p>\n<p>Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy saw some <strong>Black Saddlebags <\/strong>at Blenkinsop Lake in the last couple of days.\u00a0 These striking dragonflies are being seen at many locations just now.\u00a0 Marie tried her hand (pretty successfully, we\u2019d say!) at photographing them in flight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19554 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Marie-saddle-3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Marie-saddle-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Marie-saddle-3.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/>Black Saddlebags <em>Tramea lacerata\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)<br \/>\nMarie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19553 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Marie-saddle-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Marie-saddle-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Marie-saddle-2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/>Black Saddlebags <em>Tramea lacerata\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)<br \/>\nMarie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19552 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Marie-saddle-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Marie-saddle-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Marie-saddle-1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/>Black Saddlebags <em>Tramea lacerata\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)<br \/>\nMarie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gordon Hart found a <strong>Herald Moth <\/strong>in the Highlands on July 30.\u00a0 This moth likes the juices from friuts such as plums, and is reputed to be able to pierce the skins of fruits with its proboscis.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It spends the winter in the adult stage, and is one of the first moths to <u>herald<\/u> in the season of Spring.\u00a0 The caterpillar feeds on willows.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19551 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/herald-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"443\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/herald-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/herald.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/>Herald Moth <em>Scoliopteryx libatrix\u00a0 <\/em>(Erebidae &#8211; Scoliopteryginae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Jereny Tatum writes:\u00a0\u00a0 I visited Mount Tolmie today, and at 5:00 pm there were no butterflies on or near the reservoir of any sort \u2013 nymphalids, swallowtails, whites, skippers.\u00a0 There were two <strong>Painted Ladies<\/strong>, a little past their prime but still flying strongly, near the Jeffery Pine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 July 31 \u00a0\u00a0 There was no Invert Alert on July 30.\u00a0 Today, however, is another day. Bruce Whittington sends photographs, from Ladysmith on July 28, of a Lorquin\u2019s Admiral apparently \u201cnectaring\u201d on sapsucker drillings, and a Yellow-faced Bumble Bee. &nbsp; Also, we missed two photographs from Bruce in early June in Ladysmith, and we [&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-19555","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\/19555","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=19555"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19758,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19555\/revisions\/19758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}