{"id":15746,"date":"2022-06-17T17:51:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T00:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15746"},"modified":"2022-06-17T17:57:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T00:57:42","slug":"2022-june-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15746","title":{"rendered":"2022 June 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 June 17<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Aziza Cooper found this caterpillar on Fennel in her yard in Saanich.&nbsp; Alas, it&rsquo;s not an Anise Swallowtail butterfly &ndash; it&rsquo;s <strong>a Silver-spotted Tiger Moth<\/strong> whose presence on the Fennel is purely incidental &ndash; its normal food is Douglas Fir.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/H-Caterpillar-on-anise-1b.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Lophocampa argentata <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae &ndash; Arctiinae)&nbsp; Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum shows a caterpillar of <strong><em>Zotheca tranquilla<\/em> <\/strong>found on <em>Sambucus<\/em> at Blenkinsop Lake, June 17.<\/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\/IMG_4211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"412\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Zotheca tranquilla <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Also at Blenkinsop Lake today, writes Jeremy Tatum, I saw (but was unfortunately not able to photograph) a beautifully pristine <em>Hydrelia albifera <\/em>(Geometridae) resting, with perfect wings fully spread, on a leaf of <em>Cornus stolonifera<\/em>, the larval foodplant.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 June 17 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Aziza Cooper found this caterpillar on Fennel in her yard in Saanich.&nbsp; Alas, it&rsquo;s not an Anise Swallowtail butterfly &ndash; it&rsquo;s a Silver-spotted Tiger Moth whose presence on the Fennel is purely incidental &ndash; its normal food is Douglas Fir. Lophocampa argentata (Lep.: Erebidae &ndash; Arctiinae)&nbsp; Aziza Cooper &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum [&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-15746","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\/15746","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=15746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}