{"id":19753,"date":"2023-08-13T20:36:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T03:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19753"},"modified":"2023-08-13T20:36:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T03:36:43","slug":"2023-august-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19753","title":{"rendered":"2023 August 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2023 August 13<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Here is another of the moths that Val George photographed at his Oak Bay house yesterday (August 12):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19748 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Plemyria-georgii-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"465\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Plemyria-georgii-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Plemyria-georgii-768x557.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Plemyria-georgii.jpg 1015w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><em>Plemyria georgii\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mike McGrenere photographed this caterpillar and the dragonflies at McIntyre reservoir today, August 13:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19751 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Spilosoma-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"443\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Spilosoma-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Spilosoma-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Spilosoma-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Spilosoma.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/>Virginia Ermine<em>\u00a0 Spilosoma virginica <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Arctiinae)\u00a0 Mike McGrenere<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19750 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Anax-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"443\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Anax-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Anax-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Anax-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Anax.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/>Common Green Darners <em>Anax junius <\/em>(Odo.: Aeshnidae) Mike McGrenere<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kirsten Mills photographed this dragonfly at Muir Creek August 11, identified by Dr Rob Cannings and Jeremy Gatten as a <strong>Shadow Darner<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19752 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/umbrosa-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/umbrosa-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/umbrosa.jpg 484w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/>Shadow Darner <em>Aeshna umbrosa\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Aeshnidae) Kirsten Mills.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Aziza Cooper reports that, at the top of Mount Tolmie at 6:30 this evening, were two <strong>Painted Ladies<\/strong> and a <strong>Red Admiral.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 August 13 \u00a0\u00a0 Here is another of the moths that Val George photographed at his Oak Bay house yesterday (August 12): Plemyria georgii\u00a0 (Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Val George &nbsp; Mike McGrenere photographed this caterpillar and the dragonflies at McIntyre reservoir today, August 13: Virginia Ermine\u00a0 Spilosoma virginica (Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Arctiinae)\u00a0 Mike McGrenere Common Green [&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-19753","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\/19753","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=19753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19754,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19753\/revisions\/19754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}