{"id":23528,"date":"2024-09-09T18:36:09","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T01:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=23528"},"modified":"2024-09-09T18:36:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T01:36:09","slug":"2024-september-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=23528","title":{"rendered":"2024 September 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2024 September 9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy writes:\u00a0 On Friday Sepember 6 at McIntyre reservoir the numbers of dragonflies and butterflies have greatly decreased\u00a0 \u00a0However, I was surprised\u00a0to find a red dragonfly at 5.30 pm perched on a stick overhanging the reservoir.<\/p>\n<p>There was<br \/>\n<strong>1 Cabbage White <\/strong>butterfly<strong><br \/>\n1 Blue-eyed Darner<br \/>\n1 Paddle-tailed Darner<br \/>\n1\u00a0Cardinal\u00a0Meadowhawk<br \/>\n2 Blue Dasher<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Of the red dragonfly mentioned by Marie,\u00a0 Dr Rob Cannings writes: \u00a0This is a female<strong> Cardinal<\/strong> <strong>Meadowhawk<\/strong>. Note the heavy body, brown legs, brown streaks at the base of the wings. This species has a variable amount of yellow on the wings. The species normally oviposits by dipping the tip of the abdomen directly in the water while flying &#8212; alone or in tandem with the male. This looks more like it&#8217;s cleaning the tip of the abdomen, although I haven&#8217;t seen this behaviour before and I&#8217;m not sure that&#8217;s what&#8217;s happening.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23527 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2W1A1187-7-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"669\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2W1A1187-7-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2W1A1187-7.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 669px) 100vw, 669px\" \/>Female Cardinal Meadowhawk\u00a0 <em>Sympetrum illotum\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23526 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2W1A1158-3-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"667\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2W1A1158-3-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2W1A1158-3.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/>Female Cardinal Meadowhawk\u00a0 <em>Sympetrum illotum\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 September 9 \u00a0\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy writes:\u00a0 On Friday Sepember 6 at McIntyre reservoir the numbers of dragonflies and butterflies have greatly decreased\u00a0 \u00a0However, I was surprised\u00a0to find a red dragonfly at 5.30 pm perched on a stick overhanging the reservoir. There was 1 Cabbage White butterfly 1 Blue-eyed Darner 1 Paddle-tailed Darner 1\u00a0Cardinal\u00a0Meadowhawk 2 [&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-23528","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\/23528","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=23528"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23531,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23528\/revisions\/23531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}