{"id":19787,"date":"2023-08-17T09:12:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T16:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19787"},"modified":"2023-08-17T09:12:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T16:12:10","slug":"2023-august-17-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19787","title":{"rendered":"2023 August 17 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2023 August 17 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy spent an hour yesterday in the sweltering heat at Swan Lake.\u00a0 She writes:<br \/>\nThe only butterflies I saw were two <strong>Woodland Skippers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I saw several <strong>Blue Dashers<\/strong>, along with <strong>Tule\u00a0Bluets<\/strong>. Both these species appear to be\u00a0the most abundant odonates around at most places I frequent.\u00a0Also at Swan Lake I saw one <strong>Eight-spotted Skimmer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Also 3-4 <strong>Black\u00a0Saddlebags<\/strong>. Two were seen in tandem, mating in flight.<\/p>\n<p>Also \u00a0a green-faced \u00a0damselfly but unable to ID.\u00a0 [Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I\u2019m pretty sure it\u2019s <em>Ischnura cervula<\/em>.] <strong>2-3 Paddle-tail Darners<\/strong> and 1 <strong>Common Green Darner<\/strong>\u00a0flying around.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19784 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2W1A2850-1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"507\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2W1A2850-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2W1A2850-1-1024x679.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2W1A2850-1-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2W1A2850-1.jpg 1165w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/>Black Saddlebags <em>Tramea lacerata <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)<br \/>\nMarie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19785 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2W1A2885-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"519\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2W1A2885-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2W1A2885-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2W1A2885-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2W1A2885-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/>Eight-spotted Skimmer <em>Libellula forensis <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)<br \/>\nMarie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19786 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Marie-cervula-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"402\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Marie-cervula-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Marie-cervula-1024x656.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Marie-cervula-768x492.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Marie-cervula.jpg 1093w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\" \/>Pacific Forktail <em>Ischnura cervula <\/em>(Odo.: Coenagrionidae)<br \/>\nMarie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 August 17 morning \u00a0\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy spent an hour yesterday in the sweltering heat at Swan Lake.\u00a0 She writes: The only butterflies I saw were two Woodland Skippers. I saw several Blue Dashers, along with Tule\u00a0Bluets. Both these species appear to be\u00a0the most abundant odonates around at most places I frequent.\u00a0Also at Swan Lake [&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-19787","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\/19787","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=19787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19788,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19787\/revisions\/19788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}