{"id":23256,"date":"2024-08-18T19:51:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T02:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=23256"},"modified":"2024-08-18T19:51:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T02:51:31","slug":"2024-august-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=23256","title":{"rendered":"2024 August 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2024 August 18<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Val George writes:\u00a0 This<em>\u00a0<strong>Dichagyris variabili<\/strong><\/em><strong>s<\/strong> moth was at the Nanaimo River Road yesterday, August 17. The only butterflies I saw were two <strong>Common Woodnymphs<\/strong> and about half a dozen <strong>Woodland Skippers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23255 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Dichagyris-variabilis-1-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"488\" height=\"637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Dichagyris-variabilis-1-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Dichagyris-variabilis-1-784x1024.jpg 784w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Dichagyris-variabilis-1-768x1003.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Dichagyris-variabilis-1.jpg 919w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><em>Dichagyris variabilis\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy visited Outerbridge Park on the morning of August 18, where she saw<\/p>\n<p>Butterflies<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 4 Cabbage Whites<br \/>\n1 Lorquin\u2019s Admiral<br \/>\n11 Woodland Skippers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dragonflies<\/p>\n<p><strong>3 \u00a0Striped Meadowhawks<br \/>\n4 Paddle-tailed Darners<br \/>\n1 Black Saddlebags<br \/>\n3 <\/strong>pairs of <strong>damselflies (bluets?) <em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><em>in copula<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She sent photographs of <strong>Striped Meadowhawks<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23254 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2W1A0847-3-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2W1A0847-3-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2W1A0847-3.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/>Striped Meadowhawk\u00a0 <em>Sympetrum pallipes\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23253 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2W1A0823-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"581\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2W1A0823-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2W1A0823-2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/em>Striped Meadowhawk\u00a0 <em>Sympetrum pallipes\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 August 18 Val George writes:\u00a0 This\u00a0Dichagyris variabilis moth was at the Nanaimo River Road yesterday, August 17. The only butterflies I saw were two Common Woodnymphs and about half a dozen Woodland Skippers. Dichagyris variabilis\u00a0 (Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Val George &nbsp; Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy visited Outerbridge Park on the morning of August 18, where she saw [&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-23256","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\/23256","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=23256"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23259,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23256\/revisions\/23259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}