{"id":23041,"date":"2024-08-04T21:31:43","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T04:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=23041"},"modified":"2024-08-04T21:31:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T04:31:43","slug":"2024-august-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=23041","title":{"rendered":"2024 August 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2024 August 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ian Cooper sends some invertebrate photographs. Most were taken along the Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal near the 9 km marker on Aug 2nd. The banded snail was spotted on July 31st\u00a02024.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23040 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DSC08947css-300x265.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"667\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DSC08947css-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DSC08947css-1024x905.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DSC08947css-768x679.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DSC08947css.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/>Unidentified crane flies <em>in copula<\/em> (Dip.: Tipulidae)\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23039 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DSC08911cs-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DSC08911cs-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DSC08911cs-1024x723.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DSC08911cs-768x542.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DSC08911cs.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/>Unidentified male crane fly\u00a0 (Dip.: Tipulidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<br \/>\nIf anyone can identify these crane flies for us, please do so.\u00a0 Write to tatumjb352 at gmail dot com<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23038 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DSC08905cs-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DSC08905cs-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DSC08905cs-1024x670.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DSC08905cs-768x502.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DSC08905cs.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/>Western Black Carpenter Ant &#8211; <em>Camponotus modoc <\/em>(Hym.: Formicidae) Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23037 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DSC08885cs-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DSC08885cs-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DSC08885cs-1024x788.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DSC08885cs-768x591.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DSC08885cs.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/>Western Black Carpenter Ant \u00a0<em>Camponotus modoc <\/em>(Hym.: Formicidae)<br \/>\nhauling the carcass of a small hymenopterous insect<br \/>\nIan Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23035 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DSC08494c-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"646\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DSC08494c-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DSC08494c-1024x645.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DSC08494c-768x484.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DSC08494c.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 646px) 100vw, 646px\" \/>Banded Garden Snail &#8211; <em>Cepaea nemoralis <\/em>(Pul.: Helicidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23036 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DSC08879c-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"626\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DSC08879c-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DSC08879c-1024x628.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DSC08879c-768x471.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DSC08879c.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 626px) 100vw, 626px\" \/>Slug, <em>Limax maximus<\/em>\u00a0(Pul.: Limacidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Five people attended the <strong>August Butterfly Walk today, August 4<\/strong>. We saw five species of butterflies:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cabbage White \u2013 13<br \/>\nWoodland Skipper \u2013\u00a013<br \/>\nLorquin&#8217;s Admiral \u2013 3<br \/>\nPainted Lady \u2013 1<br \/>\nCalifornia Ringlet &#8211; 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These were distributed as follows:<\/p>\n<p><u>Mount Tolmie:\u00a0<\/u><br \/>\n<strong>Cabbage White &#8211; 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><u>McIntyre Reservoir:<\/u><br \/>\n<strong>Cabbage White &#8211; 9<br \/>\nPainted Lady \u2013 1<br \/>\nLorquin&#8217;s Admiral \u2013 1<br \/>\nWoodland Skipper &#8211; 12<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><u>Island\u00a0View Beach:<\/u><br \/>\n<strong>Cabbage White &#8211; 3<br \/>\nLorquin&#8217;s Admiral \u2013 2<br \/>\nWoodland Skipper \u2013 8<br \/>\nCalifornia Ringlet \u2013 1<br \/>\nSwallowtail sp. \u2013 1 \u00a0<\/strong>(Possibly an Anise Swallowtail)<\/p>\n<p>Some photographs obtained during the Walk will be shown tomorrow (August 5).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 August 4 Ian Cooper sends some invertebrate photographs. Most were taken along the Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal near the 9 km marker on Aug 2nd. The banded snail was spotted on July 31st\u00a02024. Unidentified crane flies in copula (Dip.: Tipulidae)\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Ian Cooper Unidentified male crane fly\u00a0 (Dip.: Tipulidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper If anyone [&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-23041","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\/23041","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=23041"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23044,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23041\/revisions\/23044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}