{"id":15441,"date":"2022-04-01T10:37:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T17:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15441"},"modified":"2022-04-01T10:47:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T17:47:49","slug":"2022-april-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15441","title":{"rendered":"2022 April 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 April 1 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jochen M&ouml;hr sends photographs of two moths from his Metchosin home, March 31.<\/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\/2022\/04\/P1670597.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"579\" height=\"434\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Orthosia transparens <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Jochen M&ouml;hr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; The larval foodplant is <em>Gaultheria shallon<\/em>.<\/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\/2022\/04\/P1670583.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"668\" height=\"501\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Venusia obsoleta\/pearsalli&nbsp; <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Jochen M&ouml;hr<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I don&rsquo;t know a reliable way of distinguishing between these two species.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Jeremy continues: &nbsp;Here is a caterpillar of <strong><em>Paraseptis adnixa<\/em> <\/strong>from near Blenkinsop Lake.<strong>&nbsp; <\/strong>This caterpillar sensibly appears early in the year &ndash; thus avoiding the attentions of tachinid flies.&nbsp; Its foodplant is <em>Oemleria cerasiformis <\/em>&nbsp;&#8211; about the only shrub in leaf in early March.&nbsp;&nbsp; Early images of this species on this site are listed as <em>Aseptis adnixa<\/em>.<\/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\/2022\/04\/Paraseptis-adnixa-la.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"634\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Paraseptis adnixa&nbsp; <\/em>(Lep.:&nbsp; Noctuidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; The spectacular hawk moth caterpillar below is fully eight inches long.&nbsp; If it is gently squeezed it emits an alarming squeak.&nbsp; April 1 is an early date to find a hawk moth caterpillar this size.<\/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\/2022\/04\/IMG_4132.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"653\" height=\"435\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Fullius aprile <\/em>(Lep.: Sphingidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 April 1 morning &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jochen M&ouml;hr sends photographs of two moths from his Metchosin home, March 31. Orthosia transparens (Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Jochen M&ouml;hr &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; The larval foodplant is Gaultheria shallon. Venusia obsoleta\/pearsalli&nbsp; (Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Jochen M&ouml;hr Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I don&rsquo;t know a reliable way of distinguishing between these two species. [&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-15441","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\/15441","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=15441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}