{"id":23313,"date":"2024-08-26T20:07:53","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T03:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=23313"},"modified":"2024-08-27T06:04:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T13:04:40","slug":"2024-august-26-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=23313","title":{"rendered":"2024 August 26 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"

2024 August 26 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Mike and Barbara McGrenere found and photographed a rather worn Painted Lady <\/strong>along the west side of the Island View Nursery on August 25.\u00a0 This is close to where Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy photographed one on the same day (see yesterday\u2019s posting), but it is obviously a different individual.\u00a0 It is good to know that there are still a few around.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/strong>Painted Lady\u00a0 Vanessa cardui\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae) Mike McGrenere<\/p>\n

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We haven\u2019t yet seen any American Ladies here this year, but a few days ago, three American Ladies turned up at Swansea in South Wales.<\/p>\n

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Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy photographed several dragon\/damselflies at McIntyre reservoir on August 24.\u00a0 She writes:
\nDragonflies seen were\u00a0\u2026
\n1 Black Saddlebags
\n<\/strong>11 Blue Dashers
\n3 Blue-eyed Darners
\n1 Cardinal Meadowhawk
\n4 Western Pondhawks<\/strong>, 3 blue male and 1 green female
\n1 Paddle-tailed Darner
\n3 Tule Bluet\u00a0damselfly<\/strong><\/p>\n

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According to Dr Rob Cannings, libellulids ofter rest in a horizontal position;\u00a0 pondhawks rest on the ground;\u00a0 aeshnids rest in a vertically hanging position.\u00a0 The first two of Marie\u2019s photographs below show a libellulid and a pondhawk doing just what they are supposed to do. \u00a0Indeed, most of the photographs of the Cardinal Meadowhawk and the Western Pondhawk that have appeared on this site over the years have shown them behaving properly. Could someone please photograph an aeshnid hanging vertically, to complete the picture?<\/p>\n

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\"\"Cardinal Meadowhawk\u00a0 Sympetrum illotum\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

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

\"\"Blue Dasher Pachydiplax longipennis\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

\"\"Below, a pair of Blue-eyed Darners Rhionaeschna multicolor <\/em>(Odo.: Aeshnidae) in cop.<\/em>
\nAbove, a pair of Blue Dashers\u00a0Pachydiplax longipennis\u00a0<\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae) in cop.<\/em>
\nMarie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

\"\"Tule Bluet \u00a0Enallagna carunculatum\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Coenagrionidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

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2024 August 26 evening \u00a0\u00a0 Mike and Barbara McGrenere found and photographed a rather worn Painted Lady along the west side of the Island View Nursery on August 25.\u00a0 This is close to where Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy photographed one on the same day (see yesterday\u2019s posting), but it is obviously a different individual.\u00a0 It is good […]<\/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-23313","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\/23313","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=23313"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23317,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23313\/revisions\/23317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}