{"id":15326,"date":"2022-02-06T17:14:04","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T01:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15326"},"modified":"2022-02-06T17:31:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T01:31:35","slug":"2022-february-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15326","title":{"rendered":"2022 February 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 February 6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>John McClarnon writes today from Hazlitt Creek Road, Highlands,:\u00a0 While watering overwintering tropical plants in the basement I found \u00a0the moth in the picture. All of the plants spend the summer \/ early fall outside.\u00a0 John identifies it correctly as a <strong>Canary Thorn <em>Neoterpes trianguliferata<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I have reared this species from a caterpillar on the leaves of Gooseberry <em>Ribes <\/em>sp.\u00a0 John writes that there are two Red-flowering Currants <em>Ribes sanguineum<\/em> nearby.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Neoterpes-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Neoterpes trianguliferata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) \u00a0John McClarnon<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jochen M\u00f6hr sends a photograph of an early noctuid moth from Metchosin.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I had hastily dismissed this as <em>Egira hiemalis, <\/em>so thanks to Libby Avis for pointing out, just before press time, that it is actually <strong><em>Egira cognata<\/em><\/strong><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/P1670439.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"442\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Egira cognata <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 February 6 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 John McClarnon writes today from Hazlitt Creek Road, Highlands,:\u00a0 While watering overwintering tropical plants in the basement I found \u00a0the moth in the picture. All of the plants spend the summer \/ early fall outside.\u00a0 John identifies it correctly as a Canary Thorn Neoterpes trianguliferata.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I have reared [&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-15326","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\/15326","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=15326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15329,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15326\/revisions\/15329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}