{"id":19617,"date":"2023-08-07T08:12:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T15:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19617"},"modified":"2023-08-07T08:12:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T15:12:42","slug":"2023-august-7-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19617","title":{"rendered":"2023 August 7 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2023 August 7 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>There was no Invertebrate Alert for August 6.<\/p>\n<p>Here are photographs of <strong>Purplish Copper <\/strong>and <strong>Grey Hairstreak <\/strong>from Kirsten Mills\u2019 and Jeff Gaskin\u2019s recent trip to the Cowichan Valley \u2013 see August 4 evening.\u00a0 Since we here in Victoria have been starved of Purplish Coppers this year and last we are happily posting three of Kirsten\u2019s photographs of different individuals from the seven that Kirsten and Jeff saw that day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19616 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PSX_20230805_214924-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PSX_20230805_214924-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PSX_20230805_214924-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PSX_20230805_214924.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/>Male Purplish Copper <em>Lycaena helloides <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)<br \/>\nKirsten Mills<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19615 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PSX_20230805_214911-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"487\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PSX_20230805_214911-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PSX_20230805_214911.jpg 767w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/>Male Purplish Copper <em>Lycaena helloides <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)<br \/>\nKirsten Mills<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><u>\u00a0<\/u><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19614 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PSX_20230805_214853-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"517\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PSX_20230805_214853-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PSX_20230805_214853.jpg 482w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px\" \/><\/u>Female Purplish Copper <em>Lycaena helloides <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae) Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19613 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PSX_20230805_214837-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"443\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PSX_20230805_214837-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PSX_20230805_214837.jpg 554w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/>Grey Hairstreak <em>Strymon melinus <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kirsten Mills writes on August 6:\u00a0 Jeff Gaskin and I went to King&#8217;s Park. We saw four <strong>Variegated<\/strong> <strong>Meadowhawks <\/strong>(identified by Jeremy Gatten). The day before, I was there and I saw at least seven. We also saw one or two at Hillside Mall.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19612 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/DSCN7368-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"493\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/DSCN7368-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/DSCN7368-1024x647.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/DSCN7368-768x486.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/DSCN7368.jpg 1145w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 493px) 100vw, 493px\" \/>Variegated Meadowhawk <em>Sympetrum corruptum<br \/>\n<\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)<br \/>\nKirsten Mills<\/p>\n<p>We hope to post a report on yesterday\u2019s VNHS Butterfly Walk this evening.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 August 7 morning \u00a0\u00a0 There was no Invertebrate Alert for August 6. Here are photographs of Purplish Copper and Grey Hairstreak from Kirsten Mills\u2019 and Jeff Gaskin\u2019s recent trip to the Cowichan Valley \u2013 see August 4 evening.\u00a0 Since we here in Victoria have been starved of Purplish Coppers this year and last 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-19617","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\/19617","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=19617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19618,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19617\/revisions\/19618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}