{"id":16302,"date":"2022-08-24T20:52:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T03:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16302"},"modified":"2022-08-24T21:06:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T04:06:39","slug":"2022-august-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16302","title":{"rendered":"2022 August 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 August 20<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatm writes:\u00a0 The young hawk moth caterpillar shown on August 15 is now in its next instar:<\/p>\n<p>&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\/88e75e74.png\" width=\"491\" height=\"296\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Smerinthis ophthalmica <\/em>(Lep.: Sphingidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <em>exuviae <\/em>(cast skins) of dragonfly nymphs can often be found clinging to vegetation at the edge of a pond.\u00a0 Viewers are asked to look out for these, and to save any that they find.\u00a0 It would be particularly interesting to look around the edge of McIntyre reservoir, where Black Saddlebags are so common, though I don\u2019t know how you\u2019d get down to the edge without disturbing shorebirds, etc.\u00a0\u00a0 There are other places, though, where Saddlebags are being seen.\u00a0 Definite proof of breeding of the Black Saddlebags in British Columbia is still lacking.\u00a0 Finding exuviae of a nymph would surely be proof.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jochen M\u00f6hr sends photographs of three moths from Metchosin this morning:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/5d257670.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Xestia xanthographa <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/4474e364.png\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Cosmia praeacuta <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/030bde06.png\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Udea profondalis <\/em>(Lep.: Crambidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"postie-attachments\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 August 20 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatm writes:\u00a0 The young hawk moth caterpillar shown on August 15 is now in its next instar: &nbsp; Smerinthis ophthalmica (Lep.: Sphingidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum &nbsp; The exuviae (cast skins) of dragonfly nymphs can often be found clinging to vegetation at the edge of a pond.\u00a0 Viewers are asked to 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-16302","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\/16302","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=16302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16308,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16302\/revisions\/16308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}