{"id":13238,"date":"2021-02-08T15:00:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T23:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13238"},"modified":"2021-02-08T15:05:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T23:05:57","slug":"february-8-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13238","title":{"rendered":"February 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 February 8<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; The caterpillar season is back!&nbsp;&nbsp; This one is a very young (3 mm)  <strong><em>Paraseptis adnixa <\/em><\/strong>(formerly known as <em>Aseptis adnixa)<\/em>.&nbsp; This is one of the earliest caterpillars to be found in the year.&nbsp; It feeds on the leaves of Indian Plum  <em>Oemleria cerasiformis<\/em>, which is the earliest of our local shrubs to come into leaf.&nbsp; At this time of year it is safe from the dangers of parasitoidal tachinid flies.<\/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=\"346\" width=\"525.6\" height=\"291.4384615384615\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/pastedImage-6.png\"><em><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Paraseptis adnixa <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae) &nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<br \/>  <em><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 February 8 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; The caterpillar season is back!&nbsp;&nbsp; This one is a very young (3 mm) Paraseptis adnixa (formerly known as Aseptis adnixa).&nbsp; This is one of the earliest caterpillars to be found in the year.&nbsp; It feeds on the leaves of Indian Plum Oemleria cerasiformis, which is the earliest [&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-13238","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\/13238","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=13238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}