{"id":20430,"date":"2023-10-29T19:34:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T02:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=20430"},"modified":"2023-10-29T19:34:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T02:34:59","slug":"2023-october-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=20430","title":{"rendered":"2023 October 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2023 October 29<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0 Yesterday, October 28,\u00a0 I returned to the same spot in the Cowichan Valley where I saw an <strong>Autumn Meadowhawk<\/strong> <strong><em>Sympetrum vicinum<\/em><\/strong>, and to my surprise it was still around.\u00a0 This was near the tower by the boardwalk at Somenos marsh.\u00a0 This may be the same dragonfly that Kirsten Mills photographed a week ago as I was with her.<\/p>\n<p>Aziza Cooper writes: \u00a0Yesterday October 28, this insect was near the summit of Christmas Hill.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20429 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/F-Insect-Xmas-Hill-1-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/F-Insect-Xmas-Hill-1-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/F-Insect-Xmas-Hill-1-1024x759.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/F-Insect-Xmas-Hill-1-768x570.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/F-Insect-Xmas-Hill-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/>Drone Fly <em>Eristalis tenax <\/em>(Dip.: Syrphidae) Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Valerie Valhowla reports a <strong>Cabbage White<\/strong> from Martindale Flats today, October 29.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 October 29 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0 Yesterday, October 28,\u00a0 I returned to the same spot in the Cowichan Valley where I saw an Autumn Meadowhawk Sympetrum vicinum, and to my surprise it was still around.\u00a0 This was near the tower by the boardwalk at Somenos marsh.\u00a0 This may be the same dragonfly that Kirsten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20430","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=20430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20431,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20430\/revisions\/20431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}