{"id":6857,"date":"2018-08-08T18:36:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T01:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6857"},"modified":"2018-10-05T16:13:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T23:13:47","slug":"august-8-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6857","title":{"rendered":"August 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>August 8<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Kirsten Mills writes:\u00a0 Yesterday, August 7, I saw a <strong>Lorquin\u2019s Admiral<\/strong> at North Dairy and Shelbourne and another one at\u00a0 Hunt and Sayward. I also saw a<strong> Western Tiger Swallowtail <\/strong>near Mattick\u2019s farm. \u00a0I then went to McIntyre reservoir at 4 pm and I saw nine <strong>Purplish Coppers<\/strong>. I attach a photo of one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0And today, August 8, Jeff Gaskin also saw one there.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"\" style=\"width: 487px; margin: 5px;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 592px;\" title=\"IMG_20180807_165919_110.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_20180807_165919_110.jpg\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Purplish Copper <em>Lycaena helloides <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Brenda Sopow sends a photograph of an uncommon moth she found at her house a couple of weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"lily stems 2018 004.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/lily-stems-2018-004.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"274\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Zale lunata <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Erebinae)\u00a0 Brenda Sopow<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna writes: . This seems to be my year for watching insects dining: a <strong>Pine White<\/strong> and a <strong>Flower Crab Spider<\/strong>.\u00a0 Kemp Lake, August 8.\u00a0 On a happier note there is a <strong>Western Tiger<\/strong> <strong>Swallowtail<\/strong> drifiting round our yard as well as 10 or so <strong>Woodland Skippers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"\" style=\"width: 481px; margin: 5px;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"P8082637.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/P8082637.jpg\" width=\"677.6\" height=\"508.2\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Crab Spider <em>Misumena vatia <\/em>(Ara.: Thomisidae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Pine White <em>Neophasia menapia <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 8 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Kirsten Mills writes:\u00a0 Yesterday, August 7, I saw a Lorquin\u2019s Admiral at North Dairy and Shelbourne and another one at\u00a0 Hunt and Sayward. I also saw a Western Tiger Swallowtail near Mattick\u2019s farm. \u00a0I then went to McIntyre reservoir at 4 pm and I saw nine Purplish Coppers. I attach a [&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-6857","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\/6857","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=6857"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7207,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6857\/revisions\/7207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}