{"id":11523,"date":"2020-07-19T10:49:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T17:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11523"},"modified":"2020-07-19T10:56:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T17:56:02","slug":"july-19-morning-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11523","title":{"rendered":"July 19 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2020 July 19 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Brenda Pilon sends a picture (<em>via<\/em> Annie Pang) of a pretty little moth from her Victoria garden.&nbsp; The caterpillar feeds on mints (<em>Mentha<\/em>).<\/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;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"541\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pastedImage-151.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mint moth <em>Pyrausta californicalis <\/em>(Lep.: Crambidae)&nbsp; Brenda Pilon<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Here are a couple of photographs from Jochen M\u00f6hr of <strong>Cinnabar Moth <\/strong>  caterpillars feeding on <strong>Ragwort.<\/strong><strong>&nbsp; <\/strong>The caterpillars of some species of butterfly or moth have a wise range of foodplants.&nbsp; Others feed on only single genus or even species of plant.&nbsp; The Mint Moth and the Cinnabar Moth are both   very particular species.&nbsp; The first feeds only on mints, the second only on ragworts.<\/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_image004.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"386\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pastedImage-152.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cinnabar Moth <em>Tyria jacobaeae <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae &#8211; Arctiinae)&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 359px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"359\" originalheight=\"640\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pastedImage-153.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cinnabar Moth <em>Tyria jacobaeae <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae &#8211; Arctiinae)&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 July 19 morning &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Brenda Pilon sends a picture (via Annie Pang) of a pretty little moth from her Victoria garden.&nbsp; The caterpillar feeds on mints (Mentha). &nbsp; Mint moth Pyrausta californicalis (Lep.: Crambidae)&nbsp; Brenda Pilon &nbsp; Here are a couple of photographs from Jochen M\u00f6hr of Cinnabar Moth caterpillars feeding on Ragwort.&nbsp; [&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-11523","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\/11523","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=11523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}