{"id":11017,"date":"2020-06-05T19:05:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T02:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11017"},"modified":"2020-06-05T19:05:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T02:05:58","slug":"2020-june-5-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11017","title":{"rendered":"2020 June 5 afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2020 June 5 afternoon<br \/>  <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>No more photos at press time, but, writes Jeremy Tatum, I have to report that this afternoon I closely watched an adult  <strong>White-lined Hawk Moth <\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><em>Hyles lineata  <\/em><\/strong>flying to and fro for about a couple of minutes at Panama Flats.&nbsp; All butterflies and moths are exciting, but hawk moths have a special magic about them &#8211; they are very exciting!  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; This moth is sometimes called the &#8220;White-lined Sphinx&#8221;.&nbsp; It is a member of the Family Sphingidae, so I suppose it could be called the &#8220;White-lined Sphingid&#8221;.&nbsp; But it is not in the genus  <em>Sphinx<\/em>, so that to call it a &#8220;Sphinx&#8221; is not just misleading &#8211; it is plain wrong.&nbsp; Best not to try and mix English and scientific names, but to call it either by the totally English name &#8220;White-lined Hawk Moth&#8221;, or else the totally scientific name  <em>Hyles lineata.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&nbsp; <\/em>I still haven&#8217;t seen any swallowtail butterfly.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 June 5 afternoon &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; No more photos at press time, but, writes Jeremy Tatum, I have to report that this afternoon I closely watched an adult White-lined Hawk Moth &nbsp;Hyles lineata flying to and fro for about a couple of minutes at Panama Flats.&nbsp; All butterflies and moths are exciting, but hawk moths [&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-11017","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\/11017","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=11017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}