{"id":15744,"date":"2022-06-16T16:31:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T23:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15744"},"modified":"2022-06-16T16:37:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T23:37:25","slug":"2022-june-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15744","title":{"rendered":"2022 June 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 June 15<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>&nbsp; <\/strong>Rosemary Jorna showed pictures of a Ceanothus Silk Moth laying an egg on May 6, and a first instar caterpillar on May 27.&nbsp; Now she writes:&nbsp; I caught my&nbsp;<strong>Ceanothus Silk Moth<\/strong> &ldquo;undressing&rdquo;.&nbsp; In slightly more technical language, that would be &ldquo;undergoing ecdysis&rdquo;.&nbsp; The caterpillar shown below is fourth instar.&nbsp; The head is down, near the bottom of the photograph.&nbsp; Near the top of the photograph we see the last two segments of the caterpillar pulling away from the yellowish mass above it.&nbsp; This yellowish mass is the shed skin of the previous (third) instar.<\/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\/06\/P6163153.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"438\" height=\"656\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Hyalophora euryalus <\/em>(Lep.: Saturniidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 June 15 &nbsp;&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna showed pictures of a Ceanothus Silk Moth laying an egg on May 6, and a first instar caterpillar on May 27.&nbsp; Now she writes:&nbsp; I caught my&nbsp;Ceanothus Silk Moth &ldquo;undressing&rdquo;.&nbsp; In slightly more technical language, that would be &ldquo;undergoing ecdysis&rdquo;.&nbsp; The caterpillar shown below is fourth instar.&nbsp; The head [&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-15744","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\/15744","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=15744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}