{"id":1193,"date":"2015-04-24T23:58:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T06:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:38:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:38:08","slug":"april-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=1193","title":{"rendered":"April 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><html> <head> <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=iso-8859-1\"> <\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" style=\"display:none\"><!--P{margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} --><\/style>\n<p> <\/head> <body dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-size:12pt;color:#000000;background-color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"> <\/p>\n<p><strong>2014 April 24<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Daniel D\u00f6nnecke found a spectacular moth at the Interurban campus of Camosun College on April 23.&nbsp; He was caught off-guard without a camera, but his colleague<\/p>\n<p>Todd Rayson quickly stepped in and got a couple of fine photographs.&nbsp; It is a male <strong>Ceanothus Silk Moth<\/strong>.&nbsp; You can tell that it is a male because of its fine bipectinate antennae.&nbsp; There&#8217;s a new word!&nbsp; From the Latin pecten &#8211; pectinis,&nbsp; a comb.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; These antennae are so sensitive that they can detect molecules of female pheromone from a distance of&nbsp; ?&nbsp; Well&#8230; some authors say more than a mile.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t know if this is true, but, in case you are inclined to doubt it, remember what you were taught  at school &#8211; that every breath you take contains at least one molecule from the dying breath of Julius&nbsp; Caesar. (I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s true, either.)<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" hasheight=\"true\" setwidth=\"503\" setheight=\"511\" style=\"width: 503px; height: 511px;\" originalheight=\"2386\" originalwidth=\"2353\" name=\"\" title=\"Hyalophora.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image553ad8976f9e0.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Ceanothus Silk Moth <em>Hyalophora euryalus <\/em> (Lep.: Saturniidae) Todd Rayson<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 507px;\" hasheight=\"false\" setwidth=\"507\" setheight=\"676\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" originalheight=\"780\" originalwidth=\"585\" name=\"\" title=\"Hyalophora antennae.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image553ad89772245.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Bipectinate antennae (<em>Hyalophora euryalus)<\/em> Todd Rayson<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Scott Gilmore photographed a beautiful geometrid moth in Upper Lantzville on April 23.&nbsp; Its genus is <em>Cladara<\/em>.&nbsp; There are supposed to be two species in British Columbia, <em> C. limitaria <\/em>and <em>C. atroliturata<\/em>, but as far as we can make out the only difference between the two is that <em>limitaria<\/em> occurs on Vancouver Island and <em>atroliturata <\/em>doesn&#8217;t!&nbsp; With that caution in mind, we&#8217;ll label this one as <strong><em>Cladara limitaria<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 545px;\" hasheight=\"false\" setwidth=\"545\" setheight=\"491\" originalheight=\"845\" originalwidth=\"937\" name=\"\" title=\"Cladara.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image553ad897725ae.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Cladara limitaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Scott Gilmore<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/body> <\/html> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2014 April 24 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Daniel D\u00f6nnecke found a spectacular moth at the Interurban campus of Camosun College on April 23.&nbsp; He was caught off-guard without a camera, but his colleague Todd Rayson quickly stepped in and got a couple of fine photographs.&nbsp; It is a male Ceanothus Silk Moth.&nbsp; You can tell that it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193","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=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1738,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions\/1738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}