{"id":4768,"date":"2017-08-09T19:20:27","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T02:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4768"},"modified":"2017-08-09T19:28:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T02:28:29","slug":"august-9-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4768","title":{"rendered":"August 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2017 August 9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I found a spider in my apartment this morning that was so huge that I couldn&#8217;t fit it all into the frame:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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=\"800\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"Eratigena.JPG\" height=\"397.3333333333333\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Eratigena.jpg\"><br \/>  <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Eratigena atrica <\/em>(Ara.: Agelenidae) Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Aziza Cooper writes: On Monday, August 7, I found one <strong>Purplish Copper<\/strong> at McIntyre Reservoir along the south side rim road. Also there were  <strong>Cabbage Whites<\/strong> and one <strong>Western Pondhawk<\/strong> dragonfly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"647\" originalwidth=\"867\" name=\"\" title=\"D P Copper McIntyre Res 1b.JPG\" height=\"444.7658592848904\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/D-P-Copper-McIntyre-Res-1b.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Purplish Copper <em>Lycaena helloides <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae) Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"882\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"D Dragonfly McIntyre Res 1a.JPG\" height=\"438.06\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/D-Dragonfly-McIntyre-Res-1a.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Western Pondhawk <em>Erythemis collocata <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae) Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I was at Swan Lake today, and I saw what I took to be a small metallic blue ichneumonid or braconid.&nbsp; I had more or less decided that it was too small to be an ichneumonid and therefore it was probably a braconid when I suddenly   realized that I was in entirely the wrong Order!&nbsp; It was a <strong>sesiid (clearwing) moth<\/strong>. It was a smaller and different species from the  <em>Synanthedon bibionipennis <\/em>twice recently reported on this site, but it didn&#8217;t stay for me to get a good look at it; &nbsp;it darted off as they so often do.&nbsp; So rarely do I see sesiids, and so exciting are they, that I take note of them even when it is   just a fleeting glance at an unidentified one.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 August 9 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I found a spider in my apartment this morning that was so huge that I couldn&#8217;t fit it all into the frame: &nbsp; Eratigena atrica (Ara.: Agelenidae) Jeremy Tatum &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Aziza Cooper writes: On Monday, August 7, I found one Purplish Copper at McIntyre Reservoir along [&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-4768","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\/4768","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=4768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}