{"id":14236,"date":"2021-06-17T17:19:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T00:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14236"},"modified":"2021-06-22T10:58:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T17:58:35","slug":"june-17-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14236","title":{"rendered":"June 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2021 June 17<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes: \u00a0Moths in their several stages have to exercise several strategies to avoid being eaten by predators.\u00a0 The caterpillar of the moth <strong><em>Behrensia conchiformis<\/em><\/strong>, and also the cocoon that it spins in which to pupate, adopts the very simple expedient of being invisible.\u00a0 Below is a photograph of the cocoon of <strong><em>Behrensia conchiformis<\/em>.\u00a0 <\/strong>There\u2019s no point in staring at it.\u00a0 It is invisible.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14292\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/June-16-1BC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/June-16-1BC.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/June-16-1BC-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Cocoon of Behrensia conchiformis\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Here are two recent geometrids from Jochen M\u00f6hr in Metchosin.\u00a0\u00a0 One can appreciate how difficult it is to sort all these moths out!\u00a0 Thanks to Libby Avis for doing so.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14293\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/June-16-2SM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/June-16-2SM.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/June-16-2SM-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Spargania magnoliata <\/em>(Lep.: \u00a0Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14294\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/June-16-3HC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/June-16-3HC.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/June-16-3HC-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Hydriomena californiata<\/em>\/<em>marinata<\/em>\u00a0 (Lep.: Geometridae<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Hart and Jeremy Tatum saw several <strong>Essex Skippers<\/strong> at Panama Flats this afternoon, June 17.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 2021 June 17 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes: \u00a0Moths in their several stages have to exercise several strategies to avoid being eaten by predators.\u00a0 The caterpillar of the moth Behrensia conchiformis, and also the cocoon that it spins in which to pupate, adopts the very simple expedient of being invisible.\u00a0 Below is a photograph of [&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-14236","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\/14236","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=14236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14295,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14236\/revisions\/14295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}