{"id":15983,"date":"2022-07-14T09:32:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T16:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15983"},"modified":"2022-07-14T09:37:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T16:37:36","slug":"2022-july-14-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15983","title":{"rendered":"2022 July 14 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 July 14 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum sends pictures of two moths and a caterpillar:<\/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\/L-argentata-ad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"397\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Silver-spotted Tiger Moth <em>Lophocampa argentata <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae &ndash; Arctiinae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/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\/07\/Ypsolopha-canariella-la.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"196\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Ypsolopha canariella <\/em>(Lep.: Ypsolophidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/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\/07\/Ypso-ad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"288\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Ypsolopha canariella <\/em>(Lep.: Ypsolophidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; The <em>Y. canariella<\/em> was reared from a caterpillar found on Snowberry.&nbsp; The moth was formerly classified within the Family Plutellidae (and it certainly looks like a plutellid to me!), but a new family, Ypsolophidae, has more recently been erected to include it.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Val George writes:&nbsp; This moth, <strong><em>Idaea dimidiata<\/em>,<\/strong> was on the wall of my Oak Bay house this morning July 14. On July 12 I walked the railway track at Cowichan Station. As well as the more common butterflies, there were two <strong>Margined Whites<\/strong>; neither was prepared to pose for a photo. The male <strong>Common<\/strong> <strong>Whitetail<\/strong> dragonfly was more cooperative.<\/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\/07\/Idaea-dimidiata-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"578\" height=\"393\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Idaea dimidiata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Val George<\/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\/Common-Whitetail-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Common Whitetail <em>Plathemis lydia <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)&nbsp; Val George<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 July 14 morning &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum sends pictures of two moths and a caterpillar: Silver-spotted Tiger Moth Lophocampa argentata (Lep.: Erebidae &ndash; Arctiinae) &nbsp; Jeremy Tatum &nbsp; Ypsolopha canariella (Lep.: Ypsolophidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum &nbsp; Ypsolopha canariella (Lep.: Ypsolophidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum &nbsp;&nbsp; The Y. canariella was reared from a caterpillar found on Snowberry.&nbsp; The moth [&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-15983","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\/15983","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=15983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}