{"id":12282,"date":"2020-09-19T16:58:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T23:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12282"},"modified":"2020-09-19T17:06:11","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T00:06:11","slug":"september-19-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12282","title":{"rendered":"September 19 afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>September 19 afternoon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I have posted pictures of these two rather different geometrid caterpillars recently, but I couldn&#8217;t resist photographing them again.&nbsp; I wanted a lateral view of  <strong><em>Rheumaptera undulata <\/em><\/strong>to show the broad white spiracular stripe,&nbsp; which helps to identify the caterpillar.&nbsp; And, while I thought my previous photograph of  <strong><em>Biston betularia<\/em><\/strong><strong> <\/strong>was of the full-grown caterpillar, it has continued to grow since then and is now about 7 cm (2 \u00be in) long.&nbsp;  <\/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=\"377\" width=\"512.8\" height=\"309.81666666666666\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pastedImage-107.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Scallop Shell <em>Rheumaptera undulata <\/em>(Lep.: Geomatridae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/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;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"416\" width=\"512.8\" height=\"341.8666666666667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pastedImage-108.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Peppered Moth <em>Biston betularia <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 19 afternoon &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I have posted pictures of these two rather different geometrid caterpillars recently, but I couldn&#8217;t resist photographing them again.&nbsp; I wanted a lateral view of Rheumaptera undulata to show the broad white spiracular stripe,&nbsp; which helps to identify the caterpillar.&nbsp; And, while I thought my previous photograph [&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-12282","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\/12282","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=12282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}