{"id":14006,"date":"2021-05-20T12:12:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T19:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14006"},"modified":"2021-05-20T12:16:06","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T19:16:06","slug":"may-20-morning-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14006","title":{"rendered":"May 20 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 May 20 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong><em>Identification updates.<\/em><em>&nbsp; <\/em>Libby Avis points out that a moth I had labelled on May 17 as  <em>Venusia <\/em>sp is actually <em>Lobophora <\/em>sp.&nbsp; And a caterpillar on May 16, which I had speculated might be  <em>Polygonia faunus<\/em>, has now been confirmed as that species.&nbsp; I have made the necessary changes to these pages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>On consecutive days, May 18, 19, Derrick Marvin had two of our largest and most spectacular moths in his Duncan garden:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 623px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"477\" width=\"597.6\" height=\"456.8192307692308\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pastedImage-64.png\">&nbsp;<br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Smerinthus ophthalmica <\/em>(Lep.: Sphingidae)&nbsp; Derrick Marven<\/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;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"374\" width=\"597.6\" height=\"358.1769230769231\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pastedImage-65.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Hyalophora euryalus <\/em>(Lep.: Saturniidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Derrick Marven<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeff Gaskin reports a latish <strong>Sara Orangetip<\/strong><strong>&nbsp; <\/strong>  by the parking lot at Thetis Lake Park, May 19.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 May 20 morning &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Identification updates.&nbsp; Libby Avis points out that a moth I had labelled on May 17 as Venusia sp is actually Lobophora sp.&nbsp; And a caterpillar on May 16, which I had speculated might be Polygonia faunus, has now been confirmed as that species.&nbsp; I have made the necessary changes [&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-14006","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\/14006","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=14006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}