{"id":22139,"date":"2024-06-25T19:58:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T02:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=22139"},"modified":"2024-06-26T08:51:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T15:51:23","slug":"2024-june-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=22139","title":{"rendered":"2024 June 25"},"content":{"rendered":"

2024 June 25<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Marie O’Shaughnessy photographed this young Blue Dasher<\/strong> at Outerbridge Park,\u00a0 June 23:<\/p>\n

\"\"Blue Dasher Pachydiplax longipennis\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

Marie saw these between 4 and 5 pm at Government House on June 24:<\/p>\n

4 Western Tiger Swallowtails
\n2 Cabbage Whites
\n6 Essex Skippers
\n1 Lorquin\u2019s Admiral
\n<\/strong>1 Blue-eyed Darner. <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>She photographed one of the Western Tiger Swallowtails:<\/p>\n

\"\"Western Tiger Swallowtail\u00a0 Pterourus rutulus\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Papilionidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

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Here are a few results of recent overnight photo shoots by Ian Cooper:<\/p>\n

\"\"Hedya nubiferana\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Tortricidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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\"\"Protolophus niger<\/em>\u00a0(Opiliones: \u00a0Protolophidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Mosquito\u00a0 (Dip.: Culicidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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We don\u2019t know what this is, but we presume it is an immature stage (nymph) of some bug:<\/p>\n

\"\"Presumed nymph of a bug (Hemiptera)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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\"\"Enoplognatha ovata<\/em>\u00a0(Ara.: Theridiidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"An Enoplognatha ovata<\/em>\u00a0(Ara.: Theridiidae) has captured a Strawberry Root Weevil Otiorhynchus ovatus<\/em>\u00a0(Col.: Curculionidae).\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Enoplognatha ovata<\/em> variant with distinctive red ‘candy stripe’ markings (Ara.: Theridiidae)
\nIan Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Seven-spotted Ladybird – Coccinella septempunctata<\/em>\u00a0(Col.: Coccinellidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 At 5:30 this afternoon (June 25) there were two Painted Ladies<\/strong> and one Red Admiral<\/strong> at the top of Christmas Hill.<\/p>\n

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Aziza Cooper writes:\u00a0 Today, June 25, at Layritz Park there were two Western Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong>, one Cabbage White<\/strong> and two Lorquin’s Admirals<\/strong>. At Viaduct Flats there was one Essex Skipper<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Butterflies still missing this year:\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Clodius Parnassian,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Margined White,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Purplish Copper,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Grey Hairstreak,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mylitta Crescent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2024 June 25 \u00a0\u00a0 Marie O’Shaughnessy photographed this young Blue Dasher at Outerbridge Park,\u00a0 June 23: Blue Dasher Pachydiplax longipennis\u00a0 (Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy Marie saw these between 4 and 5 pm at Government House on June 24: 4 Western Tiger Swallowtails 2 Cabbage Whites 6 Essex Skippers 1 Lorquin\u2019s Admiral 1 Blue-eyed Darner. \u00a0She […]<\/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-22139","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\/22139","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=22139"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22153,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22139\/revisions\/22153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}