{"id":14157,"date":"2021-06-06T17:38:59","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T00:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14157"},"modified":"2021-06-25T14:33:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T21:33:46","slug":"june-6-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14157","title":{"rendered":"June 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 June 6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Here is a now full-grown caterpillar of a <strong>Sheep Moth <\/strong>reared from eggs found on Snowberry on Mount Tolmie \u2013 see Invertebrate Alert for April 4.\u00a0 The spines on the caterpillar look very similar to the spines on the caterpillar of a comma butterfly (see yesterday&#8217;s Invert Alert), but they are in reality very different.\u00a0 The spines on the comma caterpillar are quite harmless, but those on the Sheep Moth caterpillar will give you a nasty rash if you touch them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/pastedImage-26.png\" width=\"513.6\" height=\"357.21538461538466\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sheep Moth <em>Hemileuca eglanterina <\/em>(Lep.: Saturniidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a photograph of a rather small noctuid (only 15 mm from head to apex of the forewing) raised from a caterpillar found on willow along Munn Road.\u00a0 This was quite difficult to identify, and I am very grateful to Libby Avis for her efforts to identify it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/pastedImage-27.png\" width=\"513.6\" height=\"336.63846153846157\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Brachylomia thula <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr reports just one lonely <em>Stenoporpia excelsaria<\/em>.\u00a0 \u00a0He writes:\u00a0 Although yesterday&#8217;s flew off when I tried to get a better picture, it may still be the same one.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 656px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/pastedImage-28.png\" width=\"513.6\" height=\"282.63658536585365\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Stenoporpia excelsaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 June 6 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Here is a now full-grown caterpillar of a Sheep Moth reared from eggs found on Snowberry on Mount Tolmie \u2013 see Invertebrate Alert for April 4.\u00a0 The spines on the caterpillar look very similar to the spines on the caterpillar of a comma butterfly (see yesterday&#8217;s Invert [&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-14157","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\/14157","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=14157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14344,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14157\/revisions\/14344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}