{"id":3051,"date":"2016-07-31T17:57:35","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T01:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3051"},"modified":"2016-07-31T19:32:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T02:32:12","slug":"july-31-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3051","title":{"rendered":"July 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2016 July 31<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Annie Pang sends pictures of bees.\u00a0 Thanks to Linc Best for identifications.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 452px;\" title=\"Annie Ceratina.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Annie-Ceratina.jpg\" name=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Ceratina <\/em>sp. (Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Annie Halictus.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Annie-Halictus-1.jpg\" width=\"512\" height=\"379.4517766497462\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><em>Halictus rubicundus <\/em>(Hym.: Halictidae)\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Annie Honey.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Annie-Honey.jpg\" width=\"512\" height=\"437.44195519348267\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Honey Bee <em>Apis mellifera <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Today (July 31) I went to Cordova Spit in search of the <strong>Western Branded Skipper<\/strong>. I searched in the southeast corner of the spit, in an area where there are a few crabapple trees.\u00a0 I looked for skippers nectaring on the Gumweed.\u00a0 There were lots of hesperiine skippers there, and it was not always easy to see the underside of the hindwings, so a lot of them went unidentified.\u00a0 I identified those that I could as <strong>Woodland Skippers<\/strong>.\u00a0 I wondered if perhaps I was overlooking the target species or misidentifying the ones I had called Woodlands.\u00a0 And then at last I saw a genuine <strong>Western Branded Skipper <\/strong>nectaring on the Gumweed.\u00a0 On seeing the underside of the hidwings, there was no mistaking it &#8211; and I then realized that the ones I had been calling Woodlands were indeed Woodlands, and the Branded is quite different.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On the way back I saw one male <strong>Purplish Copper <\/strong>at Island View Beach.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2016 July 31 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Annie Pang sends pictures of bees.\u00a0 Thanks to Linc Best for identifications. &nbsp; &nbsp; Ceratina sp. (Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Annie Pang Halictus rubicundus (Hym.: Halictidae)\u00a0 Annie Pang Honey Bee Apis mellifera (Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Annie Pang &nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Today (July 31) I went to Cordova Spit in search of the [&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-3051","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\/3051","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=3051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3055,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051\/revisions\/3055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}