{"id":19682,"date":"2023-08-09T07:45:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T14:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19682"},"modified":"2023-09-14T22:31:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T05:31:54","slug":"2023-august-9-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19682","title":{"rendered":"2023 August 9 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"

2023 August 9 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Val George sends a picture of a Mint Moth<\/strong>, one of the many that have been frequenting his mint patch for a couple of months.<\/p>\n

\"\"Mint Moth Pyrausta californicalis <\/em>(Lep.: Crambidae) Val George<\/p>\n

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Gordon Hart writes from Highlands: Just a note to say we saw two quite worn Lorquin\u2019s Admirals<\/strong> on August 7. \u00a0I was trying to photograph one, when a Wall Lizard attacked it. I was glad the butterfly managed to avoid the lizard and fly away.\u00a0 Other than that, we saw just one Woodland Skipper<\/strong> and many bees.<\/p>\n

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Jeff Gaskin writes: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Kirsten Mills and I had an especially good time with dragonflies on August 7th.\u00a0 At McIntyre Road reservoir we saw six species of dragonflies that included the following:\u00a0 \u00a09 Blue-eyed Darners,\u00a0 4 Common Green Darners,\u00a0 3 Black Saddlebags,\u00a0 4 Blue Dashers,\u00a0 15 Western Pondhawks, and 4 Eight-spotted Skimmers<\/strong> as well as the usual two damselflies: 40+ Tule Bluets<\/strong> and 4 Pacific<\/strong> Forktails.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The butterflies we saw included :\u00a0 \u00a02 male Purplish Coppers, 13\u00a0 Woodland Skippers and 25 Cabbage Whites.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At Outerbridge\u00a0 Park, where we went again for a second day in a row,\u00a0 the dragonflies we saw included 2 Blue Dashers,\u00a0 6 Paddle-tailed Darners and a Striped Meadowhawk<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Finally we went to Esquimalt Lagoon, where we counted an incredible\u00a058 Variegated Meadowhawks<\/strong> all along the beach.\u00a0 Also, it’s worth knowing that we only covered about 40% of the lagoon as we walked along both the lagoon and the beach sides.\u00a0 There could easily have been over 100 of these usually hard to find Meadowhawks.<\/p>\n

Here are photographs, by Kirsten Mills, of some of the insects mentioned by Jeff;<\/p>\n

\"\"Purplish Copper\u00a0 Lycaena helloides <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae) Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n

\"\"Variegated Meadowhawk\u00a0 Sympetrum corruptum
\n<\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)
\nKirsten Mills<\/p>\n

\"\"Striped Meadowhawk\u00a0 Sympetrum pallipes <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n

\"\"Western Pondhawk Erythemis collocata\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n

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

\"\"Blue-eyed Darner Rhionaeschna multicolor <\/em>(Odo.: Aeshnidae)\u00a0 Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n

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Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yesterday, August 8, Kirsten Mills and I went to the Cowichan Valley.\u00a0 Along the trail west of the Duncan sewage lagoons we saw both a\u00a0Lorquin’s Admiral<\/strong> and a Western Tiger<\/strong> Swallowtail<\/strong>.\u00a0 Then at someone’s private residence on Riverside Road again in Duncan we saw another Lorquin’s Admiral<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy sends photographs of the Variegated Meadowhawk <\/strong>from Esquimalt Lagoon, August 8.\u00a0 She writes that there were many more there in the sunshine.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Male Variegated Meadowhawk Sympetrum corruptum
\n<\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)
\nMarie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

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\"\"Male Variegated Meadowhawk Sympetrum corruptum
\n<\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)
\nMarie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

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\"\"Female Variegated Meadowhawk Sympetrum corruptum
\n<\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)
\nMarie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2023 August 9 morning \u00a0\u00a0 Val George sends a picture of a Mint Moth, one of the many that have been frequenting his mint patch for a couple of months. Mint Moth Pyrausta californicalis (Lep.: Crambidae) Val George   Gordon Hart writes from Highlands: Just a note to say we saw two quite worn Lorquin\u2019s […]<\/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-19682","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\/19682","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=19682"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20199,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19682\/revisions\/20199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}