{"id":2431,"date":"2016-05-12T18:43:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T02:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2431"},"modified":"2016-05-12T19:47:52","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T02:47:52","slug":"may-12-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2431","title":{"rendered":"May 12 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2106 May 12 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Marie O&#8217;Shaugnessy sends a photograph of a <strong>Cardinal Meadowhawk.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"605\" originalwidth=\"800\" name=\"\" title=\"RMHARK #1.jpg\" height=\"450.725\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/RMHARK-1.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cardinal Meadowhawk <em>Sympetrum illotum<\/em><em>&nbsp;  <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)&nbsp; Marie O&#8217;Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I saw several <strong>Western Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong> at Cuthbert Holmes Park this afternoon, so I imagine they are starting to become general.&nbsp; In the evening, at 6:30, I visited the Mount Tolmie reservoir, and there were two   ladies (I mean the butterfly sort) there.&nbsp; One was a perfectly normal <strong>West Coast Lady<\/strong>, and may well be the same butterfly that Marie and Val photographed recently.&nbsp; The other didn&#8217;t look exactly like any of our three ladies &#8211; West Coast, Painted   or American (the latter very rare here).&nbsp; It really looked quite strange. My best guess is that it is an aberrational form of the West Coast Lady, but I really don&#8217;t know.&nbsp; My guess is that there&#8217;s a good chance that it will be there for a few evenings yet,   and it would be great if an enterprising photographer managed to get a photograph of it, and we could try to figure out what it is.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2106 May 12 evening &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Marie O&#8217;Shaugnessy sends a photograph of a Cardinal Meadowhawk. &nbsp; Cardinal Meadowhawk Sympetrum illotum&nbsp; (Odo.: Libellulidae)&nbsp; Marie O&#8217;Shaughnessy &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I saw several Western Tiger Swallowtails at Cuthbert Holmes Park this afternoon, so I imagine they are starting to become general.&nbsp; In the evening, at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2431","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\/2431","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}