{"id":529,"date":"2015-08-09T02:35:56","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T09:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=529"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:38:02","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:38:02","slug":"august-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=529","title":{"rendered":"August 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><html> <head> <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=iso-8859-1\"> <\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" style=\"display:none\"><!--P{margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} --><\/style>\n<p> <\/head> <body dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-size:12pt;color:#000000;background-color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"> <\/p>\n<p><strong>2015 August 08<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I went to the top of Christmas Hill at 7:00 pm on August 7 to see if there were any hill-topping nymphalids.&nbsp; I scored <strong>2 Red Admirals<\/strong> and a <strong>Painted Lady.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Val George writes:&nbsp; Butterflies at Island View Beach and Saanichton (Cordova) Spit yesterday, August 7<strong>:&nbsp; 5<\/strong> <strong><em>Coenonympha tullia<\/em><\/strong> (<strong>Ringlet <\/strong>or <strong> Large Heath<\/strong>), <strong>3 Purplish Coppers, 1<\/strong> <strong>Essex Skipper,<\/strong> <em>c<\/em>. two dozen <strong>Woodland Skippers<\/strong> (but no Branded Skippers).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Gerry and Wendy Ansell write: This afternoon (Friday August 7) we went to Cordova Spit to look for the <strong>Western Branded Skippers<\/strong>.&nbsp; I found only 1 (that I was able to photograph) but quite a few <strong>Woodland Skippers<\/strong>.&nbsp; We also got 1 female <strong>Purplish Copper<\/strong> and a <strong>Cabbage White<\/strong>.&nbsp; I also saw the attached <strong>grasshopper<\/strong>, but I&#8217;m not sure what it is.&nbsp; Any ideas?&nbsp; It was quite small.&nbsp; As you can see it fits in the centre of a flower.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"864\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"Purplish Copper 4.jpg\" height=\"429.12\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image55c6bc9058ddd.jpeg\"> <\/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\">Female Purplish Copper <em>Lycaena helloides <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)&nbsp; Val George<\/div>\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_image004.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" hasheight=\"true\" setwidth=\"375\" setheight=\"515\" style=\"width: 375px; height: 515px;\" originalheight=\"1200\" originalwidth=\"874\" name=\"\" title=\"Ringlet 2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image55c6bc905a128.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Large Heath (&#8220;Ringlet&#8221;) <em>Coenonympha tullia<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Lep.: Nymphalidae &#8211; Satyrinae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Val George<\/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\" hasheight=\"true\" setwidth=\"495\" setheight=\"371\" style=\"width: 495px; height: 371px;\" originalheight=\"717\" originalwidth=\"956\" name=\"\" title=\"grasshopper.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image55c6bc905c16f.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Grasshopper (Orth.: Acrididae)&nbsp; Wendy Ansell<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Aziza Cooper writes:&nbsp; The <strong>bee<\/strong> is from the blackberries at Haliburton Farm yesterday (August 7). I&#8217;ve never seen a bee with pink pollen before.&nbsp; [Can someone out there identify it for us?&nbsp; The bee or the pollen will do!]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; The <strong>Red Admiral <\/strong>was on Moss Rock on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"875\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"C Bee pink pollen 1a.JPG\" height=\"434.5833333333333\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image55c6bc905c953.jpeg\"> <\/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_image008.jpg\">Bee <em>Bombus <\/em>sp. 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