{"id":22280,"date":"2024-07-01T20:44:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T03:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=22280"},"modified":"2024-07-01T20:44:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T03:44:38","slug":"2024-july-1-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=22280","title":{"rendered":"2024 July 1 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"

2024 July 1 evening
\n<\/strong>On June 30, Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy saw, at Swan Lake:<\/p>\n

4 \u00a0Cardinal Meadowhawks
\n<\/strong>2 Common Green Darners
\n<\/strong>2 Blue-eyed Darners
\n<\/strong>1 Western Pondhawk
\n<\/strong>12 Blue Dashers <\/strong>mostly male
\n<\/strong>6 \u00a0Lorquin\u2019s Admirals
\n<\/strong>2 Western Tiger Swallowtails
\n<\/strong>1 Cabbage White
\n<\/strong>1 European Paper Wasp<\/strong><\/p>\n

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And on Mount Tolmie<\/p>\n

3 Red Admirals <\/strong>all seen together at one point
\n<\/strong>2 \u00a0Western \u00a0Tiger Swallowtails
\n<\/strong>No Painted (or West Coast) Ladies<\/p>\n

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\"\"Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

\"\"Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

\"\"Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

\"\"Lorquin\u2019s Admiral Limenitis lorquini\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

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\"\"Lorquin\u2019s Admiral Limenitis lorquini\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

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\"\"Cardinal Meadowhawk Sympetrum illotum <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

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

Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I tried to persuade Dr Rob Cannings not to spend a lot of his time in the difficult task of tying to identify a dragonfly exuvia, but he gave us a good chunk of his time anyway.\u00a0 Dr Cannings writes of the exuvia below:\u00a0 It looks like Libellulidae, but the exuviae of some Corduliidae can be very similar. The structure of the labium is important and can’t be seen well here, except to separate these families from others. The shape of the head in exact dorsal view is useful as are the size\/presence\/absence of lateral and dorsal spines \u2013 especially in identifying genera and species. But you have to have awfully good views of these characters, and photographs usually are not clear enough.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Dragonfly exuvia (Odonata)\u00a0\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

And, by the way, Latin scholars, we do know that the word \u201cexuviae\u201d\u00a0 is not used in the singular in classical Latin, but we badly need a word to describe cast skins such as the ones above, so entomologists have agreed to call such a skin an exuvia, which we hope will not cause undue damage or inconvenience to anyone.\u00a0 \u201cExuviae\u201d means \u201cspoils\u201d (e.g. of war); the English word, like the Latin, is not generally used in the singular, either.<\/p>\n

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\"\"European Paper Wasp\u00a0 Polistes dominula <\/em>(Hym.: Vespidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2024 July 1 evening On June 30, Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy saw, at Swan Lake: 4 \u00a0Cardinal Meadowhawks 2 Common Green Darners 2 Blue-eyed Darners 1 Western Pondhawk 12 Blue Dashers mostly male 6 \u00a0Lorquin\u2019s Admirals 2 Western Tiger Swallowtails 1 Cabbage White 1 European Paper Wasp \u00a0 And on Mount Tolmie 3 Red Admirals all seen […]<\/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-22280","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\/22280","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=22280"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22283,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22280\/revisions\/22283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}