{"id":15975,"date":"2022-07-13T16:41:53","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T23:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15975"},"modified":"2022-07-13T16:48:56","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T23:48:56","slug":"2022-july-13-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15975","title":{"rendered":"2022 July 13 afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 July 13 afternoon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Rosemary Jorna&rsquo;s <strong>Ceanothus Silk Moth <\/strong>caterpillars, reared from eggs found near Kemp Lake, are now spinning their intricate double-walled teardrop-shaped cocoons:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/P7093555.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"455\" height=\"680\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ceanothus Silk Moth <em>Hyalophora euryalus <\/em>(Lep.: Saturniidae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/P7053541.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"689\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ceanothus Silk Moth <em>Hyalophora euryalus <\/em>(Lep.: Saturniidae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/P7123561.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"699\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ceanothus Silk Moth <em>Hyalophora euryalus <\/em>(Lep.: Saturniidae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/P7063513.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"719\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ceanothus Silk Moth <em>Hyalophora euryalus <\/em>(Lep.: Saturniidae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Meanwhile Jochen M&ouml;hr writes from Metchosin:&nbsp; We have quite a few <strong>Essex Skippers<\/strong>.&nbsp; They seem to be wandering through in an easterly direction, about one every two to three minutes, once&nbsp;three of them at the same time.&nbsp; For good measure here are two damselfly pictures, taken while trying&nbsp;to get pictures of Essex Skippers.&nbsp; &nbsp;Jeremy Tatum responds: It can be difficult to distinguish between <strong>Boreal<\/strong> and <strong>Northern Bluets<\/strong> from photographs, so let&rsquo;s leave these as either\/or:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/P1680735-crop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"322\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Essex Skipper <em>Thymelicus lineola <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)&nbsp; Jochen M&ouml;hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/P1680724.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"301\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Boreal\/Northern Bluet <em>Enallagma boreale<\/em>\/<em>annexum <\/em>(Odo.: Coenagrionidae)&nbsp; Jochen M&ouml;hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/P1680727.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"546\" height=\"323\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Boreal\/Northern Bluet <em>Enallagma boreale<\/em>\/<em>annexum <\/em>(Odo.: Coenagrionidae)&nbsp; Jochen M&ouml;hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 July 13 afternoon &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna&rsquo;s Ceanothus Silk Moth caterpillars, reared from eggs found near Kemp Lake, are now spinning their intricate double-walled teardrop-shaped cocoons: Ceanothus Silk Moth Hyalophora euryalus (Lep.: Saturniidae) Rosemary Jorna &nbsp; Ceanothus Silk Moth Hyalophora euryalus (Lep.: Saturniidae) Rosemary Jorna &nbsp; &nbsp; Ceanothus Silk Moth Hyalophora euryalus (Lep.: Saturniidae) Rosemary [&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-15975","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\/15975","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=15975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}