{"id":21943,"date":"2024-06-14T20:46:29","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T03:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21943"},"modified":"2024-06-14T20:46:29","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T03:46:29","slug":"2024-june-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21943","title":{"rendered":"2024 June 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2024 June 14<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 Submitting photographs to Invertebrate Alert.\u00a0 <\/strong>It would be very helpful if PC-contributors would submit photographs as<strong> <u>attachments<\/u> with .jpg or .jpeg extension.\u00a0 <\/strong>[I hate to put it another way, but it is quite time-consuming and a lot of work when photographs are submitted otherwise!]\u00a0\u00a0 This note applies to PC-users.\u00a0 Only a few are using Macs \u2013 please carry on doing it the way you are doing at present.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I must ask contributors to limit themselves to sixpixmax \u2013 i.e no more than six pictures from a single contributor per day.\u00a0 Thank you all!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Hart reports a <strong>Western Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong> from Uplands Park, June 13.\u00a0 Geoffrey Newall saw two <strong>Sheep Moths<\/strong> there on the same day.<\/p>\n<p>Val George reports the first <strong>Red Admiral <\/strong>this year from Mount Douglas, June 13.\u00a0 Also, there were four <strong>Painted Ladies<\/strong> and two or three <strong>Pale Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21942\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Painted-Lady-10-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"613\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Painted-Lady-10-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Painted-Lady-10-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Painted-Lady-10-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Painted-Lady-10-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Painted-Lady-10.jpg 1880w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" \/><br \/>\nPainted Lady <em>Vanessa cardui\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n<p>Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy writes from Swan Lake, June 12: \u00a0Three <strong>Cardinal Meadowhawks<\/strong>, two were in tandem and hiding out of the wind. \u00a0Two <strong>Common Green Darners<\/strong> that\u00a0wouldn\u2019t\u00a0hover, just patrolled\u00a0continuously.\u00a0 One female <strong>Blue Dasher<\/strong>.\u00a0 Also, there was a very worn <strong>Mourning Cloak<\/strong> and a brief visit from a\u00a0<strong>Western Tiger Swallowtail.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21940 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Cardinal-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"710\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Cardinal-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Cardinal-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Cardinal-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Cardinal.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\" \/>Cardinal Meadowhawk <em>Sympetrum illotum\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae) Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21939 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2W1A8991-4-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"637\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2W1A8991-4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2W1A8991-4-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2W1A8991-4-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2W1A8991-4.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\" \/>Female Blue Dasher\u00a0 <em>Pachydiplax longipennis\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.\u00a0 Libellulidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ian Cooper photographed this spider spotted on a tree trunk on June 13 in View Royal.\u00a0 Dr Robb Bennett agrees that it is a species of <em>Cybaeus<\/em>, possibly <em>C. signifer<\/em>, but he can\u2019t be certain of the species.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21941 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DSC04811cs-300x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"522\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DSC04811cs-300x267.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DSC04811cs-1024x911.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DSC04811cs-768x684.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DSC04811cs.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/strong><em>Cybaeus <\/em>sp. (possibly <em>signifer<\/em>)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 June 14 &nbsp; \u00a0 Submitting photographs to Invertebrate Alert.\u00a0 It would be very helpful if PC-contributors would submit photographs as attachments with .jpg or .jpeg extension.\u00a0 [I hate to put it another way, but it is quite time-consuming and a lot of work when photographs are submitted otherwise!]\u00a0\u00a0 This note applies to PC-users.\u00a0 Only [&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-21943","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\/21943","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=21943"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21946,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21943\/revisions\/21946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}