{"id":12635,"date":"2020-10-27T10:58:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T17:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12635"},"modified":"2021-04-05T17:21:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T00:21:16","slug":"october-27-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12635","title":{"rendered":"October 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2020 October 27<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jochen M\u00f6hr&#8217;s moths and caddisflies from Metchosin this morning:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>2 Epirrita autumnata\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>2 Halesochila taylori<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>and a beautifully marked moth, identified by Libby Avis as <strong><em>Mythimna unipuncta.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is indeed a beautifully marked moth, with English names White-speck Moth or American Waiscot, but whose caterpillar in North America is the notorious <strong>armyworm<\/strong>.\u00a0 Libby writes from Port Alberni:\u00a0 There was a large caterpillar outbreak in the Alberni Valley in 2017. Some farmers were badly affected, but the population appears to have died down considerably since then. We&#8217;ve seen four adults in the last two weeks and only three others earlier in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See photograph of caterpillar and account of a massive oujtbreak in Courtenay in the 2017 September 10 posting of Invertebrate Alert.\u00a0\u00a0 (Currently page 210)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 375px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/pastedImage-134.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Mythimna unipuncta <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 October 27 \u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr&#8217;s moths and caddisflies from Metchosin this morning: 2 Epirrita autumnata\u00a0 2 Halesochila taylori and a beautifully marked moth, identified by Libby Avis as Mythimna unipuncta. \u00a0 It is indeed a beautifully marked moth, with English names White-speck Moth or American Waiscot, but whose caterpillar in North America is the [&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-12635","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\/12635","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=12635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13715,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12635\/revisions\/13715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}