{"id":23339,"date":"2024-08-28T20:28:17","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T03:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=23339"},"modified":"2024-08-28T20:28:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T03:28:17","slug":"2024-august-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=23339","title":{"rendered":"2024 August 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2024 August 28<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Aziza Cooper writes, on August 27:\u00a0 Here is a dragonfly seen on August 27 along Nelthorpe Avenue, next to Swan Lake. I also saw eight <strong>Woodland Skippers<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks to Dr Rob Cannings for identifying the dragonfly as <strong><em>Sympetrum pallipes<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23335 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/J-Dragonfly-Swan-Lk-1-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"583\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/J-Dragonfly-Swan-Lk-1-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/J-Dragonfly-Swan-Lk-1-1024x723.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/J-Dragonfly-Swan-Lk-1-768x542.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/J-Dragonfly-Swan-Lk-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/><\/strong>Striped Meadowhawk\u00a0 <em>Sympetrum pallipes\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today, August 28, Aziza writes:\u00a0 Today, at Whiffin Spit, there were six <strong>Cabbage<\/strong> Whites and three <strong>Woodland Skippers<\/strong>. Here are a few other insects:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23336 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/K-Grasshopper-Whiffin-Spit-1b-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"633\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/K-Grasshopper-Whiffin-Spit-1b-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/K-Grasshopper-Whiffin-Spit-1b.jpg 689w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 633px) 100vw, 633px\" \/>Carolina Grasshopper\u00a0 <em>Dissosteira carolina\u00a0 <\/em>(Orth.:\u00a0 Acrididae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23337 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/K-Insect-Whiffin-Spit-2b-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"667\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/K-Insect-Whiffin-Spit-2b-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/K-Insect-Whiffin-Spit-2b.jpg 723w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/>Drone Fly\u00a0 <em>Eristalis tenax\u00a0 <\/em>(Dip.:\u00a0 Syrphidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23338 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/K-Insect-Whiffin-Spit-3b-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"667\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/K-Insect-Whiffin-Spit-3b-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/K-Insect-Whiffin-Spit-3b.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/>Honey Bee <em>Apis mellifera\u00a0 <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 August 28 \u00a0\u00a0 Aziza Cooper writes, on August 27:\u00a0 Here is a dragonfly seen on August 27 along Nelthorpe Avenue, next to Swan Lake. I also saw eight Woodland Skippers.\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks to Dr Rob Cannings for identifying the dragonfly as Sympetrum pallipes. Striped Meadowhawk\u00a0 Sympetrum pallipes\u00a0 (Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Aziza Cooper &nbsp; Today, August 28, [&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-23339","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\/23339","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=23339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23341,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23339\/revisions\/23341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}