{"id":16207,"date":"2022-08-12T20:24:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T03:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16207"},"modified":"2022-08-12T20:28:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T03:28:20","slug":"2022-august-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16207","title":{"rendered":"2022 August 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 August 12<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Three moths, August 11, from Jochen M&ouml;hr in Metchosin, Val George in Oak Bay, and Jeremy Tatum in Saanich:<\/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\/08\/A-corusca.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"179\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Autographa corusca <\/em>(lLep.: Noctuidae) Jochen M&ouml;hr<\/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\/08\/Pero-sp-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"203\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Pero mizon<\/em>\/<em>morrisonaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) Val George<\/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\/08\/another-Hypena.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"195\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Hypena californica <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae &ndash; Hypeninae) Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; This morning I had a long, leisurely, close look at a fairly fresh <strong>Mourning Cloak <\/strong>perched on the&nbsp;northeastern part of the boardwalk at Swan Lake.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; This afternoon I saw a full grown and fully-fed caterpillar of a <strong>Sheep Moth <\/strong>wandering around on Lochside Drive north of Blenkinsop Lake, looking for a place to pupate.&nbsp; I took him home to offer him a nice home in a pile of sterilized potting soil.&nbsp; He seemed a little confused, so I gave him a single very gentle nudge with the tip of one of my fingers.&nbsp; That was a mistake.&nbsp; The resulting itch on my finger is a little worse that that caused by a mosquito or stinging nettle, and it seems to be spreading.&nbsp; I have sometimes wondered if I have been exaggerating a little on this site when warning viewers not to handle this caterpillar.&nbsp; I now know that I was not exaggerating.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 August 12 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Three moths, August 11, from Jochen M&ouml;hr in Metchosin, Val George in Oak Bay, and Jeremy Tatum in Saanich: Autographa corusca (lLep.: Noctuidae) Jochen M&ouml;hr &nbsp; Pero mizon\/morrisonaria (Lep.: Geometridae) Val George &nbsp; Hypena californica (Lep.: Erebidae &ndash; Hypeninae) Jeremy Tatum &nbsp;&nbsp; This morning I had a long, leisurely, close look [&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-16207","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\/16207","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=16207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}