{"id":14553,"date":"2021-07-14T15:52:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T22:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14553"},"modified":"2021-07-16T19:26:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T02:26:58","slug":"2021-july-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14553","title":{"rendered":"2021 July 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 July 14<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Earlier this week Amelie Roias found two caterpillars of <strong><em>Antheraea polyphemus <\/em><\/strong>and one of <strong><em>Smerinthus ophthalmica<\/em><\/strong> at Panama Flats.\u00a0 She also saw a <strong>Painted Lady <\/strong>ovipositing on thistle \u2013 but unfortunately Saanich cut down the thistles the following day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Aziza Cooper writes: \u00a0Yesterday\u00a0 , July 13, at Swan Lake one green moth, <strong><em>Nemoria unitaria<\/em><\/strong>, was above the entrance to the Nature House. A<strong> Mourning Cloak<\/strong> was perched on a branch above the floating boardwalk at the eastern end.\u00a0 Two <strong>Western Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong>, and some <strong>Lorquin&#8217;s Admirals<\/strong> and <strong>Cabbage Whites<\/strong> were also at Swan Lake.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corrigendum:\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I had originally misidentified and mislabelled this moth as <em>Nemoria darwiniata.\u00a0 <\/em>Thanks to Libby Avis (and my apologies to Aziza) for pointing out that it is actually <em><strong>Nemoria unitaria.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/F-Moth-green-1b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"573\" height=\"400\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Nemoria unitaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/F-Bfly-Mourning-Cloak-1b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mourning Cloak <em>Nymphalis antiopa <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae) \u00a0Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 July 14 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Earlier this week Amelie Roias found two caterpillars of Antheraea polyphemus and one of Smerinthus ophthalmica at Panama Flats.\u00a0 She also saw a Painted Lady ovipositing on thistle \u2013 but unfortunately Saanich cut down the thistles the following day. &nbsp; Aziza Cooper writes: \u00a0Yesterday\u00a0 , July 13, at Swan Lake one [&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-14553","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\/14553","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=14553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14567,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14553\/revisions\/14567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}