{"id":23152,"date":"2024-08-10T19:16:35","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T02:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=23152"},"modified":"2024-08-10T19:16:35","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T02:16:35","slug":"2024-august-10-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=23152","title":{"rendered":"2024 August 10 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"

2024 August 10 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n

Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy has been photographing dragonflies and damselflies at Beaver Lake Ponds and McIntyre Reservoir on August 8. We thank Dr Rob Cannings for help with the identifications.<\/p>\n

First, from Beaver Lake Ponds, where Marie saw:<\/p>\n

Dragonflies
\n<\/u>1 Black Saddlebag\u00a0
\n<\/u>2 Blue Dashers
\n<\/u>1 Striped Meadowhawk
\n<\/u>2 Western Pondhawks<\/strong><\/p>\n

Damselflies
\n<\/u>3 Spotted Spreadwings\u00a0
\n<\/u>2 Pacific Forktail<\/strong><\/p>\n

Butterflies
\n<\/u>3 Cabbage Whites
\n<\/u>2 Woodland Skippers<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"Spotted Spreadwing Lestes congener <\/em>(Odo.: Lestidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

\"\"Pacific Forktail Ischnura cervula\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Coenagrionidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/u>Female Western Pondhawk Erythemis collocata\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/u>Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

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Now from McIntyre Reservoir:<\/p>\n

Butterflies
\n<\/u>5 Cabbage Whites<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dragonflies
\n<\/u>4 Black Saddlebags\u00a0
\n<\/u>1 Blue-eyed Darner\u00a0
\n<\/u>3 Western Pondhawks – <\/strong>1 female, 1 male and 1 bi-coloured\u00a0
\n<\/u>17 Blue Dashers
\n<\/u>1 Eight-spotted Skimmer\u00a0
\n<\/u>2 Paddletailed Darners<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/u><\/strong>Male Western Pondhawk\u00a0 Erythemis collocata\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/u><\/strong>Western Pondhawk Erythemis collocata <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy
\nDr Cannings writes that this is a male Western Pondhawk<\/strong> but not yet fully pruinose.<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum writes: \u201cTwo Red Admirals<\/strong> emerged today from their chrysalides.\u00a0 See July 29 for a caterpillar and August 1 for a chrysalis.\u00a0 I was unable to take a photograph, but you may see the adults where I released them, one at Mount View Park and the other at Playfair Park.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ian Cooper sends a photograph of a ladybird beetle<\/strong> from the E&N Trail in Vic West, August 4.\u00a0\u00a0 Scott Gilmore kindly identified it for us as Hippodamia convergens.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/em><\/strong>Hippodamia convergens\u00a0 <\/em>(Col.: Coccinellidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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2024 August 10 evening Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy has been photographing dragonflies and damselflies at Beaver Lake Ponds and McIntyre Reservoir on August 8. We thank Dr Rob Cannings for help with the identifications. First, from Beaver Lake Ponds, where Marie saw: Dragonflies 1 Black Saddlebag\u00a0 2 Blue Dashers 1 Striped Meadowhawk 2 Western Pondhawks Damselflies 3 […]<\/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-23152","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\/23152","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=23152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23154,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23152\/revisions\/23154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}