{"id":20232,"date":"2023-09-18T19:47:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T02:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=20232"},"modified":"2023-09-19T08:54:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T15:54:52","slug":"2023-september-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=20232","title":{"rendered":"2023 September 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2023 September 18<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy photographed the colourful bee below in the Martindale Valley on September 14.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20231 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2W1A7727-260-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"483\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2W1A7727-260-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2W1A7727-260-768x588.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2W1A7727-260.jpg 872w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 483px) 100vw, 483px\" \/><em>Agapostemon<\/em> <em>virescens<\/em> (Hym.: Halictidae) Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kirsten Mills and Jeff Gaskin found this damselfly on the Metchosin Golf Course, Pears Road, on September 14.\u00a0 Nearly all of the damselfly photographs that have appeared on this site have been of the Family Coenagrionidae, so it is good to see a different Family represented.\u00a0 This is a <strong>Spreadwing <\/strong>\u00a0of the Family Lestidae \u2013 you can see why they are called spreadwings.\u00a0\u00a0 Dr Rob Cannings writes that it is a male &#8212; and almost certainly <strong><em>Lestes disjunctus<\/em>.\u00a0 <\/strong>For absolute certainty he would need to see a dorsal view showing the exact shape of the paraprocts &#8211; but other aspects (e.g., thorax pattern) indicate <em>L. disjunctus<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20218 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Kirsten-damsel-300x217.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"453\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Kirsten-damsel-300x217.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Kirsten-damsel-1024x742.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Kirsten-damsel-768x557.png 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Kirsten-damsel.png 1079w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 453px) 100vw, 453px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Northern Spreadwing<em>\u00a0 Lestes disjunctus\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Lestidae)\u00a0 Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 September 18 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy photographed the colourful bee below in the Martindale Valley on September 14. Agapostemon virescens (Hym.: Halictidae) Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy &nbsp; Kirsten Mills and Jeff Gaskin found this damselfly on the Metchosin Golf Course, Pears Road, on September 14.\u00a0 Nearly all of the damselfly photographs that have appeared on this site have [&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-20232","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\/20232","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=20232"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20235,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20232\/revisions\/20235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}