{"id":22400,"date":"2024-07-06T07:13:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T14:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=22400"},"modified":"2024-07-06T07:13:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T14:13:58","slug":"2024-july-6-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=22400","title":{"rendered":"2024 July 6 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2024 July 6 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Ian Cooper writes:\u00a0 Here is a selection of photos taken late on July 4 by the ^E&amp;N trail and by the #Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal, as dusk gave way to nightfall.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-22399 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06165cs-300x151.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06165cs-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06165cs-1024x516.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06165cs-768x387.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06165cs.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><em>Arion rufus<\/em>\u00a0(Pul.: Arionidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>I was amazed at how big this slug was when I spotted it through the vegetation by the trail. Easily the largest slug of this species I&#8217;ve seen yet!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-22398 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06132cs-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06132cs-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06132cs-1024x718.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06132cs-768x538.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06132cs.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/>#Mosquito &#8211; <em>Culiseta incidens<\/em>\u00a0(Dip.: Culicidae) \u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-22397 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06109-cs-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06109-cs-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06109-cs-1024x570.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06109-cs-768x428.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06109-cs.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/>#Blue-green Sharpshooter <em>Hordnia atropunctata<\/em>\u00a0(Hem.: Coccinellidae) \u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-22396 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06103cs-285x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06103cs-285x300.jpg 285w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06103cs-973x1024.jpg 973w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06103cs-768x808.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06103cs.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/>^Spittle Bug &#8211; <em>Philaenus spumarius<\/em>\u00a0(Hem.: Cercopidae) \u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-22395 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06066-cs-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06066-cs-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06066-cs-1024x827.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06066-cs-768x620.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06066-cs.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/>^Seven-spotted Ladybird &#8211; <em>Coccinella septempunctata<\/em> (Col.: Coccinellidae)<br \/>\nIan Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 July 6 morning \u00a0 Ian Cooper writes:\u00a0 Here is a selection of photos taken late on July 4 by the ^E&amp;N trail and by the #Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal, as dusk gave way to nightfall. Arion rufus\u00a0(Pul.: Arionidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper I was amazed at how big this slug was when I spotted [&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-22400","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\/22400","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=22400"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22403,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22400\/revisions\/22403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}