{"id":23281,"date":"2024-08-24T19:28:34","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T02:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=23281"},"modified":"2024-08-26T07:51:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T14:51:59","slug":"2024-august-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=23281","title":{"rendered":"2024 August 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2024 August 24<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>No Invertebrate Alert was issued on August 23.<\/p>\n<p>Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy sends these five photographs from a trip up to Parksville \/Nanaimo area Aug 22, 2024<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23277 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2W1A1124-19-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"656\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2W1A1124-19-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2W1A1124-19.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/>Western Forktail <em>Ischnura perparva\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Coenagrionidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23278 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2W1A1129-5-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2W1A1129-5-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2W1A1129-5.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/>Spotted Spreadwing\u00a0 <em>Lestes congener\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Lestidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23280 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2W1A1184-23-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"656\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2W1A1184-23-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2W1A1184-23.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/>Paddle-tailed Darner <em>Aeshna palmata\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Aeshnidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We thank James Miskelly, who writes, of the following two photographs:<\/p>\n<p>The katydid is <strong><em>Conocephalus fasciatus<\/em><\/strong> and the grasshopper is a bit ambiguous. I think it&#8217;s <strong><em>Melanoplus<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>sanguinipes<\/em><\/strong> but without a side view of the hind femora I can&#8217;t rule out <em>M. femurrubrum<\/em>. On Vancouver Island the latter species is only found in salt marsh habitat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23276 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2W1A1109-21-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"665\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2W1A1109-21-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2W1A1109-21.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><em>Conocephalus fasciatus\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Tettigoniidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23279 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2W1A1131-8-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2W1A1131-8-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2W1A1131-8.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><em>Melanoplus<\/em> <em>sanguinipes<\/em><em>\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Acrididae) Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But see further on the identification of this grasshopper on the August 26 posting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 August 24 \u00a0\u00a0 No Invertebrate Alert was issued on August 23. Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy sends these five photographs from a trip up to Parksville \/Nanaimo area Aug 22, 2024 Western Forktail Ischnura perparva\u00a0 (Odo.: Coenagrionidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy Spotted Spreadwing\u00a0 Lestes congener\u00a0 (Odo.: Lestidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy Paddle-tailed Darner Aeshna palmata\u00a0 (Odo.: Aeshnidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy &nbsp; We [&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-23281","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\/23281","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=23281"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23286,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23281\/revisions\/23286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}