{"id":19744,"date":"2023-08-12T22:15:40","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T05:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19744"},"modified":"2023-08-12T22:15:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T05:15:40","slug":"2023-august-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19744","title":{"rendered":"2023 August 12"},"content":{"rendered":"

2023 August 12<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy writes that there were two Painted Ladies<\/strong> and a Red Admira<\/strong>l on the top of Mount Tolmie at 5:30 on August 10 \u2013 and Jeremy Tatum found the same three at the same time on August 11.\u00a0 And on August 12, at 5:00 pm, Aziza Cooper saw two Painted Ladies <\/strong>still there.<\/p>\n

Ron Flower writes:\u00a0 At Island View Beach back field we saw 2 Ringlets<\/strong> and 1 Lorquin\u2019s\u00a0 Admiral<\/strong>. Then at McIntyre Reservoir we saw 2 maybe 3 Purplish Coppers<\/strong> on the east side of reservoir. August 11.<\/p>\n

Aziza Cooper photographed one of the Purplish Coppers<\/strong>, as well as an interesting moth, which Libby Avis kindly identified as\u00a0 Loxostege munroeales <\/em><\/strong>\u2013 a crambid described as recently as 2005.<\/p>\n

\"\"Male Purplish Copper Lycaena helloides <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)
\nAziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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\"\"Male Purplish Copper Lycaena helloides <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)
\nAziza Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Loxostege munroealis <\/em>(Lep.: Crambidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Gordon Hart sends a photograph of a pair of Tule Bluets <\/strong>at McIntyre Reservoir, August 11.<\/p>\n

\"\"Tule Bluets Enallagma carunculatum <\/em>(Odo.: Coenagrionidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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Val George sends photographs of moths (ready identified for me!) from his Oak Bay house, August 12.<\/p>\n

\"\"Small Magpie Moth\u00a0 Anania hortulata <\/em>(Lep.: Crambidae)
\nVal George<\/p>\n

\"\"Autographa californica <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae \u2013 Plusiinae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n

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Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy photographed the dragonfly below at McIntyre Reservoir, August 11.\u00a0 From the dorsal photograph alone, Dr Rob Cannings wrote:\u00a0 Some other angles would have been nice (face, side of thorax), but it’s a pretty photo. I think it’s an Aeshna umbrosa<\/em><\/strong> (a blue occidentalis<\/em><\/strong> form) mainly because the tenth segment is all dark (no spots). The blue abdominal spots are large for the average umbrosa<\/em>, though, so I had to think a lot about it. Anyway, in my experience, these spots can be almost as big in the “occidentalis<\/em>” form, as they are in other species — in general, these spots in umbrosa<\/em> are smaller than in others.<\/p>\n

\"\"Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa <\/em>(Odo.: Aeshnidae)
\nMarie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

Marie promptly obliged and provided the additional photographs below, which enabled Dr Cannings to write:\u00a0 Yes, these photos confirm that this is a female Aeshna umbrosa<\/em><\/strong>. The pale blue-green face with a light brown line across it and the lateral thoracic stripe — narrow, straight and outlined in dark colour. Lovely photos showing oviposition.<\/p>\n

We thank Dr Cannings for the trouble he took to make this tricky determination.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa <\/em>(Odo.: Aeshnidae)
\nMarie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

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\"\"Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa <\/em>(Odo.: Aeshnidae)
\nMarie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

\"\"Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa <\/em>(Odo.: Aeshnidae)
\nMarie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2023 August 12 \u00a0\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy writes that there were two Painted Ladies and a Red Admiral on the top of Mount Tolmie at 5:30 on August 10 \u2013 and Jeremy Tatum found the same three at the same time on August 11.\u00a0 And on August 12, at 5:00 pm, Aziza Cooper saw two Painted […]<\/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-19744","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\/19744","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=19744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19745,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19744\/revisions\/19745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}