{"id":14598,"date":"2021-07-21T15:43:37","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T22:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14598"},"modified":"2021-07-21T15:45:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T22:45:54","slug":"2021-july-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14598","title":{"rendered":"2021 July 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 July 21<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; Here is a small, slightly worn, moth found on a window at the University of Victoria today.&nbsp;&nbsp; Amazingly, if we follow some taxonomists, this little moth, known as a <strong>scoopwing <\/strong>moth, is in the same Family as the huge, brilliantly-coloured tropical swallowtail moths of the Family Uraniidae.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Although the Uraniidae is regarded as being in the Superfamily Geometroidea, and is therefore related at that level to the Geometridae, the caterpillars of the scoopwings don&rsquo;t look at all like geometrids.&nbsp;&nbsp; They have their full set of prolegs, and look rather similar to noctuid caterpillars.&nbsp; They feed on honeysuckle<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_4025.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"514\" height=\"373\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Callizzia amorata <\/em>(Lep.: Uraniidae &#8211; Epipleminae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 July 21 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; Here is a small, slightly worn, moth found on a window at the University of Victoria today.&nbsp;&nbsp; Amazingly, if we follow some taxonomists, this little moth, known as a scoopwing moth, is in the same Family as the huge, brilliantly-coloured tropical swallowtail moths of the Family Uraniidae.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [&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-14598","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\/14598","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=14598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}