{"id":1354,"date":"2015-03-26T00:40:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T07:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:38:09","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:38:09","slug":"march-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=1354","title":{"rendered":"March 26"},"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>2015 March 25<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Libby Avis sends a photo of an almost full-grown <strong>Lorquin&#8217;s Admiral <\/strong>caterpillar from her greenhouse in Alberni.&nbsp; This is astonishingly early for a caterpillar in this stage; at this time of year they would normally be found in their overwintering stage, which is a tiny first-instar caterpillar. &nbsp;Presumably the combination  of greenhouse plus mild winter did the trick. It was feeding on Scouler&#8217;s Willow, one of the usual foodplants.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"600\" originalwidth=\"600\" name=\"\" title=\"Lorquin cat.jpg\" height=\"588.8\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image5513557df015f.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">Lorquin&#8217;s Admiral <em>Limenitis lorquini <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae) Libby Avis<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Libby seems to be getting far more moths up there than we do here in Victoria, for she writes:&nbsp; Starting to get quite a bit of activity at the light now &#8211; we`re up to 28 species for March so far, but pretty much the usual suspects:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Lithophane<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; <strong><em>baileyi, innominata, petulca<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>georgii<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Xylena &#8211; nupera, <\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;<strong><em>curvimacula<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Egira<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; <strong><em>hiemalis<\/em><\/strong> and several <strong><em>crucialis<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Acerra normalis, Anticlea vasiliata, Cerastis enigmatica, Ypsolopha falciferella<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Pleromelloida conserta<\/em><\/strong> (both dark and light versions) and a couple of <strong><em>Zale lunata<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Piles of <strong><em>Triphosa, Orthosia<\/em><\/strong> (both <strong><em>hibisci<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>praeses<\/em><\/strong>) and numerous <strong><em>Peridroma saucia<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Several <strong><em>Eupithecia<\/em><\/strong> including one <strong><em>gilvipennata <\/em><\/strong>which is not that common here.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/body> <\/html> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 March 25 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Libby Avis sends a photo of an almost full-grown Lorquin&#8217;s Admiral caterpillar from her greenhouse in Alberni.&nbsp; This is astonishingly early for a caterpillar in this stage; at this time of year they would normally be found in their overwintering stage, which is a tiny first-instar caterpillar. &nbsp;Presumably the combination [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1354","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\/1354","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=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1759,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions\/1759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}