{"id":23295,"date":"2024-08-26T08:31:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T15:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=23295"},"modified":"2024-08-26T08:31:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T15:31:07","slug":"2024-august-26-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=23295","title":{"rendered":"2024 August 26 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2024 August 26 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No Invertebrate Alert was issued on August 25.<\/p>\n<p>Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy shows another photograph \u2013 this time a lateral view \u2013 of the grasshopper shown on August 24.\u00a0 This enabled James Miskelly to identify it with certainty.\u00a0 \u00a0James writes:\u00a0 This confirms that it&#8217;s <strong><em>Melanoplus sanguinipes<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 If Marie or the readers are interested in identification notes, this is the only <em>Melanoplus<\/em> on Vancouver Island that has diagonal stripes on the outer face of the hind femurs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23288 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2W1A1136-26-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"653\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2W1A1136-26-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2W1A1136-26.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 653px) 100vw, 653px\" \/><em>Melanoplus sanguinipes\u00a0 <\/em>(Orth.: Acrididae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Marie writes that the butterflies at McIntyre Reservoir on the afternoon of August 25 were.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1 Painted Lady<br \/>\n4 Cabbage Whites<br \/>\n10 Woodland Skippers\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23289 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2W1A1584-3-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"679\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2W1A1584-3-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2W1A1584-3.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/>Painted Lady <em>Vanessa cardui\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23291 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2W1A1603-1-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2W1A1603-1-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2W1A1603-1.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/strong>Painted Lady <em>Vanessa cardui\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23290 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2W1A1591-2-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"626\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2W1A1591-2-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2W1A1591-2.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 626px) 100vw, 626px\" \/><\/strong>Painted Lady <em>Vanessa cardui\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23292 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2W1A1609-5-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2W1A1609-5-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2W1A1609-5.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/strong>Woodland Skipper <em>Ochlodes sylvanoides\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gordon Hart writes:\u00a0 Here at home in the Highlands, on Sunday August 25 we saw a nice <strong>Black Saddlebags<\/strong>. It perched for a minute, so I was able to photograph it. It stayed a while hunting with a couple of <strong>Paddle-tailed Darners<\/strong> before disappearing. The only butterflies today were a <strong>Cabbage White<\/strong> and at least two <strong>Woodland Skippers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23294 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Saddlebags-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"659\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Saddlebags-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Saddlebags-1024x695.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Saddlebags-768x521.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Saddlebags.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 659px) 100vw, 659px\" \/><\/strong>Black Saddlebags <em>Tramea lacerata\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 August 26 morning No Invertebrate Alert was issued on August 25. Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy shows another photograph \u2013 this time a lateral view \u2013 of the grasshopper shown on August 24.\u00a0 This enabled James Miskelly to identify it with certainty.\u00a0 \u00a0James writes:\u00a0 This confirms that it&#8217;s Melanoplus sanguinipes.\u00a0 If Marie or the readers are interested [&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-23295","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\/23295","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=23295"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23298,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23295\/revisions\/23298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}