{"id":14810,"date":"2021-08-27T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14810"},"modified":"2021-08-27T15:38:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T22:38:43","slug":"2021-august-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14810","title":{"rendered":"2021 August 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 August 27<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; More <em>Colias <\/em>News:&nbsp; <\/strong>Mark Wynja went back to the location where he photographed a <strong>Clouded Sulphur <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;(see August 22 Alert) and he found three ova &ndash; two of which have already hatched into tiny caterpillars.<strong>&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mark adds that Steve Ansell mentioned that Clouded Sulphurs have recently shown up in the Lower Mainland and on the Sunshine Coast.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Mr E sends photographs of a geometrid caterpillar from Tahsis.&nbsp; With a head like a pussycat, the caterpillar might be <em>Biston <\/em>or <em>Pero<\/em>.&nbsp; Caterpillars of <em>Biston<\/em> are usually found in late summer;&nbsp; those of <em>Pero<\/em> in the spring.&nbsp; In spite of that, Jeremy Tatum writes, I&rsquo;m inclined to agree with Mr E and I think this caterpillar looks more like <em>Pero<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Photo_1629955290774.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"657\" height=\"624\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Pero <\/em>sp. (Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Mr E<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Photo_1629955287041.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"697\" height=\"635\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Pero <\/em>sp. (Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Mr E<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Photo_1629955288928.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"710\" height=\"686\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Pero <\/em>sp. (Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Mr E<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Photo_1629955288270.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"694\" height=\"722\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Pero <\/em>sp. (Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Mr E<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Photo_1629956188161.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"709\" height=\"476\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Pero <\/em>sp. (Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Mr E<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Photo_1629955289820.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"714\" height=\"468\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Pero <\/em>sp. (Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Mr E<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 August 27 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; More Colias News:&nbsp; Mark Wynja went back to the location where he photographed a Clouded Sulphur &nbsp;(see August 22 Alert) and he found three ova &ndash; two of which have already hatched into tiny caterpillars.&nbsp; &nbsp; Mark adds that Steve Ansell mentioned that Clouded Sulphurs have recently shown up in [&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-14810","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\/14810","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=14810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}