{"id":2811,"date":"2016-07-02T18:18:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T02:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2811"},"modified":"2016-07-02T19:21:30","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T02:21:30","slug":"july-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2811","title":{"rendered":"July 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2016 July 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Devon Parker writes that he and his Dad went on a hike on June 26 from Spectacle Lake to Oliphant Lake.&nbsp; They found<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2 Dun Skippers<\/strong><br \/>  <strong>1 Clodius Parnassian<\/strong><br \/>  <strong>4 Lorquin&#8217;s Admiral<\/strong><br \/>  <strong>1 Hydaspe Fritillary <\/strong><br \/>  <strong>1 <\/strong>flyby<strong> fritillary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum and Bill Savale visited Muir Creek today, July 2, and saw 2 adult and one caterpillar  <strong>Red Admirals<\/strong>, as well as the expected <strong>Western<\/strong> and  <strong>Pale Tiger Swallowtails, Lorquin&#8217;s Admiral <\/strong>and <strong>Essex Skipper<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna writes:&nbsp; We were at Peden Lake in the Sooke Hills today July 2 2016. Two  <strong>Lorquin&#8217;s Admirals<\/strong> were flying.&nbsp; Dragonflies and damselflies were&nbsp;out in great numbers and varieties&nbsp; but I only got this shot of a mature male  <strong>Eight-spotted<\/strong> <strong>Skimmer <\/strong><strong><em>Libellula forensis<\/em><\/strong> . There were a dozen or more of these males darting about.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"900\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"Eight spotted.jpg\" height=\"447\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Eight-spotted.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">Eight-spotted Skimmer  <em>Libellula forensis <\/em>(Odo.:&nbsp; Libellulidae)&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna<\/div>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2016 July 2 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Devon Parker writes that he and his Dad went on a hike on June 26 from Spectacle Lake to Oliphant Lake.&nbsp; They found &nbsp; 2 Dun Skippers 1 Clodius Parnassian 4 Lorquin&#8217;s Admiral 1 Hydaspe Fritillary 1 flyby fritillary &nbsp; &nbsp; Jeremy Tatum and Bill Savale visited Muir Creek today, [&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-2811","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\/2811","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=2811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}