{"id":15069,"date":"2021-10-07T17:16:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T00:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15069"},"modified":"2021-10-07T17:19:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T00:19:03","slug":"2021-october-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15069","title":{"rendered":"2021 October 7"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2021 October 7<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/strong>(No October 6 posting, in case you were looking.)<\/p>\n

    On August 22 we posted a photograph from Mark Wynja in Bowser of a Clouded Sulphur<\/strong> Colias<\/em><\/strong> philodice <\/strong><\/em>with an egg beneath it on a leaf of Beach Pea Lathyrus japonicus<\/em>.  Mark found four eggs, and he has now succeeded in the tricky task rearing them to chrysalides.  Mark writes:<\/p>\n

 Aug 20, 2021 – female Clouded Sulphur photographed (egg spotted on leaf below her)<\/p>\n

 Aug 23, 2021 – collected eggs and parts of host beach pea<\/p>\n

 Aug 24\/25, 2021 – four caterpillars emerged<\/p>\n

 Oct 3\/4, 2021 –  first caterpillar has entered the pupal stage<\/p>\n

 Oct 6, 2021 – two more Clouded Sulphur caterpillars have entered the pupal stage. One pupa has fallen from where it attached itself. The largest of the caterpillars has stopped moving and eating; it will likely pupate soon. <\/p>\n

 This whole process has taken 40 or more days from the caterpillars emerging to entering the pupal stage. They have spent their time in the rearing container with a regular fresh supply of beach pea.They are in our sunroom, out of direct sunlight, where it is only marginally warmer than the outside temperature.<\/p>\n

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Clouded Sulphur Colias philodice <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)   Mark Wynja<\/p>\n

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Clouded Sulphur Colias philodice <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)   Mark Wynja<\/p>\n

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Clouded Sulphur Colias philodice <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)   Mark Wynja<\/p>\n

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   Kalene Lillico, Program Naturalist at Swan Lake, sent a photograph of what she described as a sweet little robber fly.  She also suggested a more prosaic name, Neomochtherus willistoni<\/em><\/strong> , and Dr Rob Cannings confirms that she was spot on – which is what you’d expect of a Swan Lake Program Naturalist.<\/p>\n

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Female robber fly  Neomochtherus willistoni <\/em>(Dip.: Asilidae)   Kalene Lillico<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2021 October 7  (No October 6 posting, in case you were looking.)     On August 22 we posted a photograph from Mark Wynja in Bowser of a Clouded Sulphur Colias philodice with an egg beneath it on a leaf of Beach Pea Lathyrus japonicus.  Mark found four eggs, and he has now succeeded in the […]<\/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-15069","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\/15069","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=15069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}