{"id":10575,"date":"2020-05-01T10:48:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T17:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10575"},"modified":"2020-05-01T10:56:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T17:56:27","slug":"may-1-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10575","title":{"rendered":"May 1 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2020 May 1 morning<br \/>  <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Today we have one of our largest moths, <strong><em>Hyalophora euryalus<\/em><\/strong> and (the caterpillar of) one of our smallest moths,  <strong><em>Eriocrania semipurpurella<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; I think they are maybe not <em>  the<\/em> largest and <em>the<\/em> smallest.&nbsp; I think maybe <em>Antheraea polyphemus<\/em> is slightly larger.&nbsp; Other tiny moths that we get here include  <em>Stigmella <\/em>sp<em>., Leucoptera laburnella, Phyllocnistis populiella, Cameraria gaultheriella<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp; All are from different Families, and all are leaf-miners.&nbsp; They could all compete for the title of our smallest moth, though I suspect that  <em>Stigmella <\/em>would probably win.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; You will notice that many leaves of Ocean Spray have brown blotches at this time of year.&nbsp; Many of these are the blotch mines of  <strong><em>Eriocrania semipurpurella<\/em><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><strong>&nbsp; <\/strong>  The blotch shown below was from an Ocean Spray leaf in Mount Douglas Park.&nbsp; The adult moths are to be found in March.<\/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_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"426\" width=\"596.8\" height=\"407.4307692307692\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pastedImage.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Hyalophora euryalus <\/em>(Lep.: Saturniidae)&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/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=\"416\" width=\"596.8\" height=\"397.8666666666666\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pastedImage-1.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Eriocrania semipurpurella <\/em>(Lep.: Eriocraniidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 May 1 morning &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Today we have one of our largest moths, Hyalophora euryalus and (the caterpillar of) one of our smallest moths, Eriocrania semipurpurella.&nbsp; I think they are maybe not the largest and the smallest.&nbsp; I think maybe Antheraea polyphemus is slightly larger.&nbsp; Other tiny moths that we get here include Stigmella [&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-10575","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\/10575","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=10575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}