{"id":15675,"date":"2022-05-29T17:04:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T00:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15675"},"modified":"2022-05-29T17:15:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T00:15:57","slug":"2022-may-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15675","title":{"rendered":"2022 May 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 May 29<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jochen M\u00f6hr\u00a0 (Metchosin) writes:\u00a0 After several days of nothing, this morning a<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Litholomia napaea<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Litholomia-napaea-P1670828.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"578\" height=\"803\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Litholomia napaea <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 On May 26 I showed a photograph of an egg of the geometrid moth <em>Coryphista meadii<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 Today the egg hatched.\u00a0 Here is the empty egg shell:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/old-egg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"335\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Coryphista meadii <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here is the tiny first instar caterpillar.\u00a0 Like many youngsters, it was exceedingly active and it wouldn\u2019t stay still for a decent photograph.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/larva.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"330\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Coryphista meadii <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 As soon as I saw that the egg had hatched I went up to Mount Tolmie to get a fresh <em>Mahonia<\/em> leaf for the young caterpillar to feed upon.\u00a0 With a pair of scissors I snipped off the first decent-looking fresh leaf that I saw, and I hurried home.\u00a0 Only when I looked at the underside of this leaf did I see that it had on it another egg of <em>Coryphista meadii<\/em>!\u00a0 So now I\u2019ll have two <em>Coryphista<\/em> caterpillars to look after.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/new-egg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"374\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Coryphista meadii <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 May 29 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr\u00a0 (Metchosin) writes:\u00a0 After several days of nothing, this morning a Litholomia napaea: &nbsp; Litholomia napaea (Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr &nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 On May 26 I showed a photograph of an egg of the geometrid moth Coryphista meadii.\u00a0\u00a0 Today the egg hatched.\u00a0 Here is the empty egg shell: [&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-15675","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\/15675","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=15675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15680,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15675\/revisions\/15680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}