{"id":23429,"date":"2024-09-04T20:49:04","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T03:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=23429"},"modified":"2024-09-04T20:54:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T03:54:47","slug":"2024-september-4-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=23429","title":{"rendered":"2024 September 4 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2024 September 4 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Aziza Cooper photographed the fly below on Mount Douglas in mid-August.\u00a0 We are grateful to Dr Jeff Skevington, who has identified it as a species of <strong>bee fly<\/strong> (Bombyliidae) in the genus <strong><em>Villa<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23424 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/A-Insect-Mt-Doug-1b-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/A-Insect-Mt-Doug-1b-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/A-Insect-Mt-Doug-1b.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Bee fly\u00a0 <em>Villa <\/em>sp. (Dip.: Bombyliidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Aziza visited Island View Beach today, Septmber 4.\u00a0 She writes that there were three <strong>Purplish Coppers<\/strong>, one <strong>California<\/strong> <strong>Ringlet<\/strong>, five <strong>Woodland Skippers<\/strong> and nine <strong>Cabbage Whites<\/strong>. An aeshnid dragonfly was perching vertically.\u00a0 Dr Rob Cannings kindly identified the aeshnid as a male <strong>Shadow Darner.\u00a0<\/strong> Aziza sends the following photographs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23425 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/D-Bfly-P-Copper-D-1-1b-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"627\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/D-Bfly-P-Copper-D-1-1b-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/D-Bfly-P-Copper-D-1-1b.jpg 629w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/>Female Purplish Copper <em>Tharsalia helloides\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23426 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/D-Bfly-P-Copper-V-1-2b-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/D-Bfly-P-Copper-V-1-2b-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/D-Bfly-P-Copper-V-1-2b.jpg 578w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/>Purplish Copper <em>Tharsalia helloides\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 (Lateral view)\u00a0\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23427 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/D-Bfly-Ringlet-1b-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"662\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/D-Bfly-Ringlet-1b-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/D-Bfly-Ringlet-1b.jpg 541w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 662px) 100vw, 662px\" \/>California Ringlet <em>Coenonympha california <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae \u2013 Satyrinae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23428 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/D-Dragonfly-1b-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/D-Dragonfly-1b-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/D-Dragonfly-1b.jpg 644w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/>Shadow Darner <em>Aeshna umbrosa <\/em>(Odo.: Aeshnidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 September 4 evening Aziza Cooper photographed the fly below on Mount Douglas in mid-August.\u00a0 We are grateful to Dr Jeff Skevington, who has identified it as a species of bee fly (Bombyliidae) in the genus Villa. \u00a0Bee fly\u00a0 Villa sp. (Dip.: Bombyliidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Aziza Cooper &nbsp; Aziza visited Island View Beach today, Septmber 4.\u00a0 She [&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-23429","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\/23429","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=23429"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23434,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23429\/revisions\/23434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}