{"id":11603,"date":"2020-07-23T16:48:27","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T23:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11603"},"modified":"2020-07-23T16:56:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T23:56:45","slug":"july-23-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11603","title":{"rendered":"July 23 afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2020 July 23 afternoon<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp;&nbsp; A few weeks ago I had the idea that I&#8217;d like to post pictures of both sexes of both species of our local  <em>Malacosoma<\/em>, so I reared six caterpillars of each.&nbsp; Darn it, but all the <em>  M. disstria <\/em>&nbsp;turned out to be females, so I didn&#8217;t get a guaranteed picture of a  <em>disstria <\/em>male.&nbsp; So, here is my incomplete (and hence not all that useful!) set. (One of the caterpillar photographs is Rosemary&#8217;s)  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"623\" originalheight=\"467\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pastedImage-199.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Malacosoma californicum <\/em>(Lep.: Lasiocampidae)&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"416\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pastedImage-200.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Malacosoma disstria <\/em>(Lep.: Lasiocampidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"416\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pastedImage-201.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Female <em>Malacosoma californicum <\/em>(Lep.: Lasiocampidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"375\" originalheight=\"576\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pastedImage-202.png\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Female <em>Malacosoma disstria <\/em>(Lep.: Lasiocampidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"346\" originalheight=\"435\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pastedImage-203.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Male <em>Malacosoma californicum <\/em>(Lep.: Lasiocampidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More tomorrow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 July 23 afternoon&nbsp; &nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp;&nbsp; A few weeks ago I had the idea that I&#8217;d like to post pictures of both sexes of both species of our local Malacosoma, so I reared six caterpillars of each.&nbsp; Darn it, but all the M. disstria &nbsp;turned out to be females, so I didn&#8217;t get [&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-11603","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\/11603","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=11603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}