{"id":174,"date":"2016-03-10T01:33:21","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T09:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=174"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:37:57","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:37:57","slug":"march-9-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"March 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 22.72px; margin: 0px 0px 1.35em; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><strong style=\"line-height: 22.72px;\">2016 March 9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 22.72px; margin: 0px 0px 1.35em; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><strong style=\"line-height: 22.72px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>David Allinson writes: This 25mm long caterpillar was photographed January 28, 2016. However, I was surprised to have daily observed 1-5 similar ones (same species) along the road ALL winter long while walking my dog (late November on). Most were about the same size, but some were much smaller.&nbsp; I saw them on mild days, and usually during sunny breaks after rainfall. Not surprisingly, they were very lethargic in the still cool temperatures (I carefully picked up a few to save them from being run over). &nbsp;Location is in Metchosin, along Ferncliffe Place, off Happy Valley Road.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 22.72px; margin: 0px 0px 1.35em; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; This is the caterpillar of the&nbsp;<strong style=\"line-height: 22.72px;\">Large Yellow Underwing&nbsp;<\/strong>moth.&nbsp; The caterpillar can be found in most months.&nbsp; They hide during the day, but now is as good a time as any to find them on grass at night with a flashlight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 22.72px; margin: 0px 0px 1.35em; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-173\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Npronuba.jpg\" alt=\"Npronuba\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Npronuba.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Npronuba-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Npronuba-768x978.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Npronuba-804x1024.jpg 804w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"line-height: 22.72px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;\">Large Yellow Underwing&nbsp;<em style=\"line-height: 22.72px;\">Noctua pronuba&nbsp;<\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)<\/div>\n<p style=\"line-height: 22.72px; margin: 0px 0px 1.35em; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;\">David Allinson<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2016 March 9 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;David Allinson writes: This 25mm long caterpillar was photographed January 28, 2016. However, I was surprised to have daily observed 1-5 similar ones (same species) along the road ALL winter long while walking my dog (late November on). Most were about the same size, but some were much smaller.&nbsp; I saw them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","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=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1551,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/1551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}