{"id":3044,"date":"2016-07-30T18:37:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T02:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3044"},"modified":"2016-07-30T19:53:35","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T02:53:35","slug":"july-30-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3044","title":{"rendered":"July 30"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2016 July 30<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Val George writes:\u00a0 Yesterday afternoon, July 29, I saw at least a dozen \u201cRinglets<\/strong>\u201d (also called Large Heath<\/strong>) Coenonympha tullia<\/em><\/strong> at Island View Beach.<\/p>\n

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Coenonympha tullia <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae – Satyrinae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy sends a photograph of a Western Pondhawk<\/strong> from MacIntyre reservoir July 25.\u00a0 We were initially unsure whether this was a Western Pondhawk or the somewhat similar Blue Dasher, and we are grateful to Rob Cannings for identifying it for us.\u00a0 Rob makes the interesting observation that the Western Pondhawk often perches on the ground, while the Blue Dasher rarely does.\u00a0 That will be something for dragonfly watchers to look out for!<\/p>\n

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\"\"Male Western Pondhawk Erythemis collocata <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae) Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/div>\n

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Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I saw a Western Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong> today at Cresswell Road (near the Airport).\u00a0 Also there was a sesiid (clearwing moth)<\/strong>.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t manage to identify it, but sesiids are always exciting – I certainly don\u2019t get to see one every year.\u00a0 At 6:45 pm this evening, the usual nymphalids were hill-topping on Mount Tolmie.\u00a0 Three Red Admirals<\/strong>:\u00a0 two on the reservoir (one on the paint blotches – it usually chooses the blue blotch), and one on the bramble patch.\u00a0 And one Painted Lady<\/strong>, as usual on the roadside beneath the Jeffery Pine.<\/p>\n

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Gerry, Wendy and Steve Ansell write:\u00a0 We went searching for the Western Branded<\/strong> Skippers<\/strong> on the Indian Reserve on Cordova Spit.\u00a0 Steve managed to photograph two males and there may have been more.\u00a0 They were near the dirt parking lots on the spit.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Western Branded Skipper Hesperia colorado <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Steve Ansell<\/div>\n

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[Jeremy comments – That looks like a Honey Bee coming in for the attack!]<\/p>\n

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\"\"Western Branded Skipper Hesperia colorado <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Steve Ansell<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Western Branded Skipper Hesperia colorado <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Steve Ansell<\/p>\n

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2016 July 30 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Val George writes:\u00a0 Yesterday afternoon, July 29, I saw at least a dozen \u201cRinglets\u201d (also called Large Heath) Coenonympha tullia at Island View Beach.   Coenonympha tullia (Lep.: Nymphalidae – Satyrinae)\u00a0 Val George \u00a0\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy sends a photograph of a Western Pondhawk from MacIntyre reservoir July 25.\u00a0 We were […]<\/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-3044","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\/3044","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=3044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3050,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions\/3050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}