{"id":1349,"date":"2015-03-22T23:14:43","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T06:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2016-04-25T11:21:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T18:21:07","slug":"march-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=1349","title":{"rendered":"March 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2015 March 22<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Judy Smith telephoned yesterday from her house on Grant Street to say that she had unearthed several caterpillars while she was digging in the soil in her garden.\u00a0 Unsurprisingly, these turned out to be rather unprepossessing prepupal caterpillars of <strong><em>Noctua pronuba<\/em><\/strong>, a European invader often found in gardens.\u00a0 She also found a mystery object, which I believe to be the cocoon of a hymenopterous parasitoid, probably an ichneumonid from its size.\u00a0 Maybe it had come from a <em>pronuba<\/em> caterpillar.\u00a0 [Added later:\u00a0 It turned out to be a species of <em>Ophion<\/em>.]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1344\" style=\"width: 495px;\" title=\"IMG_1678.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image550f4ce5a7722.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" name=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image550f4ce5a7722.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image550f4ce5a7722-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image550f4ce5a7722-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image550f4ce5a7722-1024x683.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Large Yellow Underwing <em>Noctua pronuba <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae) Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1345\" style=\"width: 527px;\" title=\"IMG_1680.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image550f4ce5a87f2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" name=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image550f4ce5a87f2.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image550f4ce5a87f2-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image550f4ce5a87f2-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image550f4ce5a87f2-1024x683.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Cocoon of <em>Ophion <\/em>sp.\u00a0 (Hym.: Ichneumonidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy continues:\u00a0\u00a0 And here is an <strong><em>Egira curialis<\/em><\/strong>moth from my Saanich apartment this morning.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1346\" style=\"width: 543px; height: 326px;\" title=\"IMG_1682.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image550f4ce5a9c6d.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"719\" name=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image550f4ce5a9c6d.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image550f4ce5a9c6d-300x180.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image550f4ce5a9c6d-768x460.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image550f4ce5a9c6d-1024x614.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><em>Egira curialis <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And this from Scott Gilmore from Upper Lantzville: I have never looked at the Invert Alert page with such fantastic timing. I found a <em>Eupithecia<\/em> species on my house this morning (March 21) that I have never seen before. Seeing Jeremy Gatten\u2019s\u00a0<strong><em>Eupithecia gilvipennata<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 from March 20 makes me think I found a much less boldly marked individual. I have attached a picture of the moth I found.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1347\" style=\"width: 563px;\" title=\"P1240232small.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image550f4ce5aa938.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" name=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image550f4ce5aa938.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image550f4ce5aa938-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image550f4ce5aa938-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image550f4ce5aa938-1024x768.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Eupithecia gilvipennata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) Scott Gilmore<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Gatten writes from Saanichton:\u00a0 It&#8217;s that time of the year again. \u00a0<strong><em>Behrensia conchiformis<\/em><\/strong>, that beautiful moth that lacks a common name, will start putting in appearances under lights to dazzle people with its striking green flecks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1348\" style=\"width: 463px;\" title=\"Behrensia conchiformis (Saanichton, BC - March 22, 2015).jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image550f4ce5ab768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"1000\" name=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image550f4ce5ab768.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image550f4ce5ab768-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image010.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><em>Behrensia conchiformis <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Gatten<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 March 22 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Judy Smith telephoned yesterday from her house on Grant Street to say that she had unearthed several caterpillars while she was digging in the soil in her garden.\u00a0 Unsurprisingly, these turned out to be rather unprepossessing prepupal caterpillars of Noctua pronuba, a European invader often found in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1349","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\/1349","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=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2242,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions\/2242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}