{"id":19958,"date":"2023-08-25T20:28:56","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T03:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19958"},"modified":"2023-08-26T13:41:51","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T20:41:51","slug":"2023-august-25-evening-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19958","title":{"rendered":"2023 August 25 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2023 August 25 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>This hover fly was photographed by Aziza Cooper at Rithet\u2019s Bog on August 22:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19946 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Azizas-fly-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"472\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Azizas-fly-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Azizas-fly-1024x748.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Azizas-fly-768x561.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Azizas-fly.jpg 1058w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><em>Myathropa florea <\/em>(Dip.: Syrphidae) Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>This dragonfly was photographed by Kirsten Mills at Green Park Drive, North Saanich, on August 24.\u00a0 It was formerly known as the Yellow-legged Meadowhawk, but its name has been changed to <strong>Autumn Meadowhawk<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19954 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PSX_20230824_162618-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PSX_20230824_162618-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PSX_20230824_162618.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/>Autumn Meadowhawk <em>Sympetrum vicinum <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19953 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PSX_20230824_162605-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"472\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PSX_20230824_162605-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PSX_20230824_162605.jpg 649w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/>Autumn Meadowhawk <em>Sympetrum vicinum <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This <strong>jewel beetle<\/strong> was photographed by Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy at Beckwith Park, August 25.\u00a0 We thank Scott Gilmore for identifying it as being from the genus <em><strong>Dicerca<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19951 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Marie-buprestid-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Marie-buprestid-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Marie-buprestid-1024x796.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Marie-buprestid-768x597.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Marie-buprestid.jpg 1033w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><em>Dicerca <\/em>sp. (Col.: Buprestidae) Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Few butterflies other than Cabbage Whites and Woodland Skippers are around just now, although Aziza Cooper reports that a <strong>Red Admiral <\/strong>was still present on the Mount Tolmie reservoir on August 24<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 August 25 evening \u00a0 This hover fly was photographed by Aziza Cooper at Rithet\u2019s Bog on August 22: Myathropa florea (Dip.: Syrphidae) Aziza Cooper &nbsp; \u00a0 This dragonfly was photographed by Kirsten Mills at Green Park Drive, North Saanich, on August 24.\u00a0 It was formerly known as the Yellow-legged Meadowhawk, but its name has [&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-19958","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\/19958","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=19958"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19965,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19958\/revisions\/19965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}