{"id":22845,"date":"2024-07-24T19:09:49","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T02:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=22845"},"modified":"2024-07-24T19:09:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T02:09:49","slug":"2024-july-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=22845","title":{"rendered":"2024 July 24"},"content":{"rendered":"

2024 July 24<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0\u00a0 Yesterday, July 23, Kirsten Mills and I saw eight species of dragonflies at the south end of Beaver Lake and at the retriever ponds.\u00a0 Included among that number were firsts of the year for me.\u00a0 \u00a01 Striped Meadowhawk<\/strong>, which Kirsten photographed, and 6 or so Paddle-tailed Darners<\/strong>.\u00a0 Also, seen were a Four-spotted Skimmer,<\/strong> a Common Green Darner<\/strong>, 2 or 3 Black Saddlebags<\/strong>, and several Blue-eyed<\/strong> Darners, Blue Dashers<\/strong>, and Western Pondhawks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Earlier in the day I saw my first of the year Pine White<\/strong> at Viaduct Flats.<\/p>\n

Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 The Beaver Lake ponds are an excellent locality for dragonflies.\u00a0 So far this year no one has yet reported a Dot-tailed Whiteface.\u00a0 Jeff\u2019s Pine White is the first reported this year.\u00a0 So far, still no Purplish Copper.\u00a0 Also, amazingly, only one Woodland Skipper \u2013 at Cowichan Station; none near Victoria.\u00a0 And only one Grey Hairstreak this year.<\/p>\n

Here is Kirsten\u2019s photograph referred to by Jeff:<\/p>\n

\"\"Striped Meadowhawk Sympetrum pallipes\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 This moth was at my Saanich apartment building this morning, July 24:<\/p>\n

\"\"Neoalcis californiaria\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.:\u00a0 Geometridae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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The following five photographs were taken by Ian Cooper on July 16 and 17.\u00a0 All were feeding on a lush stand of Fennel flowers growing at the corner of Esquimalt Road and Mary Street in Vic West, adjacent to the E&N Trail.\u00a0 The first three show some of the great variety of forms of the Asian Lady Beetle \u2013 but don\u2019t get them confused with the Seven-spotted Lady Beetle in the fourth photograph!<\/p>\n

\"\"Asian Lady Beetle – Harmonia axyridis<\/em>\u00a0(Col.: Coccinellidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Asian Lady Beetle – Harmonia axyridis<\/em>\u00a0(Col.: Coccinellidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\" Asian Lady Beetle – Harmonia axyridis<\/em>\u00a0(Col.: Coccinellidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\" Seven-spotted Lady Beetle \u2013 Coccinella septempunctata<\/em>\u00a0(Col.: Coccinellidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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\"\"Honey Bee\u00a0 Apis mellifera\u00a0 <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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2024 July 24 Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0\u00a0 Yesterday, July 23, Kirsten Mills and I saw eight species of dragonflies at the south end of Beaver Lake and at the retriever ponds.\u00a0 Included among that number were firsts of the year for me.\u00a0 \u00a01 Striped Meadowhawk, which Kirsten photographed, and 6 or so Paddle-tailed Darners.\u00a0 Also, 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-22845","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\/22845","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=22845"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22848,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22845\/revisions\/22848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}