{"id":9641,"date":"2019-10-27T15:25:43","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T22:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=9641"},"modified":"2019-10-27T15:26:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T22:26:36","slug":"october-27-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=9641","title":{"rendered":"October 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2019 October 27<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Layla Munger sends photographs of a spider and a bug from Beacon Hill Park, October 26.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"487\" width=\"597.6\" height=\"466.3961538461539\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/pastedImage-102.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Araneus <\/em>(probably <em>saevus<\/em>) (Ara.: Araneidae)&nbsp; Layla Munger<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"467\" width=\"597.6\" height=\"447.2423076923077\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/pastedImage-103.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Chlorochroa <\/em>sp.&nbsp; (Hem.: Pentatomidae)&nbsp; Layla Munger<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Gordon Hart writes:&nbsp; On Saturday October 26 we visited Gorge Park in Esquimalt where we did not see any butterflies, but we did see a  <strong>Yellow faced Bee <\/strong><strong><em>Bombus vosnesenskii<\/em><\/strong>, feeding on a very early-blooming species of tall  <em>Mahonia<\/em> (Oregon Grape).&nbsp; We saw an unidentified large darner, probably a  <strong>Paddle-tailed Darner <\/strong><strong><em>Aeshna palmata<\/em><\/strong>, fly by as well. Smaller bees, including lots of honey bees, continue at home in the Highlands in this sunny weather.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"405\" width=\"597.6\" height=\"387.86538461538464\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/pastedImage-104.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Bombus vosnesenskii <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae)&nbsp; Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeff Gaskin reports that Kirsten Mills saw a <strong>Cabbage White<\/strong>&nbsp; in the North Dairy\/ Richmond Avenue area yesterday, October 26.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes: &nbsp;I saw a nymphalid butterfly at Panama Flats today, October 27, but &#8211; darn it! &#8211; I couldn&#8217;t identify it, so it cannot be a contender for last butterfly of the year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Big question &#8211; is November possible?!<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 October 27 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Layla Munger sends photographs of a spider and a bug from Beacon Hill Park, October 26. &nbsp; Araneus (probably saevus) (Ara.: Araneidae)&nbsp; Layla Munger &nbsp; Chlorochroa sp.&nbsp; (Hem.: Pentatomidae)&nbsp; Layla Munger &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Gordon Hart writes:&nbsp; On Saturday October 26 we visited Gorge Park in Esquimalt where we did not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9641","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\/9641","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=9641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}