{"id":23127,"date":"2024-08-09T20:06:39","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T03:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=23127"},"modified":"2024-08-09T20:06:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T03:06:39","slug":"2024-august-9-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=23127","title":{"rendered":"2024 August 9 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2024 August 9 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aziza Cooper photographed an <strong>Arctic Blue <\/strong>near the top of Mount Washington on August 8.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23123 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/A-Arctic-Blue-Mt-WA-V-1a-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"591\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/A-Arctic-Blue-Mt-WA-V-1a-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/A-Arctic-Blue-Mt-WA-V-1a-1024x758.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/A-Arctic-Blue-Mt-WA-V-1a-768x568.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/A-Arctic-Blue-Mt-WA-V-1a.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\" \/><\/strong>Arctic Blue <em>Agriades glandon\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23122 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/A-Arctic-Blue-Mt-WA-D-1a-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/A-Arctic-Blue-Mt-WA-D-1a-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/A-Arctic-Blue-Mt-WA-D-1a-1024x765.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/A-Arctic-Blue-Mt-WA-D-1a-768x574.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/A-Arctic-Blue-Mt-WA-D-1a.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/strong>Arctic Blue <em>Agriades glandon\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Val George writes:\u00a0\u00a0 This morning, August 9, these two moths were on the wall of my Oak Bay house: An <strong>Alfalfa Looper, <em>Autographa californica<\/em><\/strong>, and a\u00a0 <strong><em>Eudonia <\/em>sp.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23124 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Autographa-californica-6-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"381\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Autographa-californica-6-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Autographa-californica-6-759x1024.jpg 759w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Autographa-californica-6-768x1036.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Autographa-californica-6.jpg 849w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 381px) 100vw, 381px\" \/><em>Autographa californica\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae \u2013 Plusiinae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23125 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Eudonia-sp-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Eudonia-sp-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Eudonia-sp-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Eudonia-sp-768x1153.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Eudonia-sp-1023x1536.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Eudonia-sp.jpg 1138w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><em>Eudonia <\/em>sp.\u00a0 (<em>commortalis<\/em>?\u00a0 <em>echo<\/em>?) (Lep.: Crambidae \u2013 Scopariinae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Jeff Gaskin writes that Kirsten Mills saw a <strong>Mourning Cloak<\/strong> near Hillside Mall today, August 9, and yesterday, August 8, she saw four <strong>California Ringlets<\/strong>\u00a0at the disc playing field at Layritz Park.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 August 9 evening Aziza Cooper photographed an Arctic Blue near the top of Mount Washington on August 8. Arctic Blue Agriades glandon\u00a0 (Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper \u00a0\u00a0 Arctic Blue Agriades glandon\u00a0 (Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper &nbsp; Val George writes:\u00a0\u00a0 This morning, August 9, these two moths were on the wall of my Oak Bay [&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-23127","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\/23127","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=23127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23129,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23127\/revisions\/23129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}