{"id":18666,"date":"2023-06-01T20:27:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T03:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=18666"},"modified":"2023-06-01T20:28:33","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T03:28:33","slug":"2023-june-1-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=18666","title":{"rendered":"2023 June 1 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2023 June 1 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeff Gaskin reports that on Monday May29, in Esquimalt Gorge Park he saw a <strong>Twelve-spotted Skimmer<\/strong> and a <strong>Western Pondhawk<\/strong> near the ponds in the Japanese gardens.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum shows a photograph of a <strong><em>Hypena californica<\/em><\/strong>, reared from the caterpillar shown on May 19, morning.\u00a0\u00a0 Moths of the genus <em>Hypena <\/em>are remarkable for the long forward-projecting labial palpi in the adult, and the caterpillars, which have only three pairs of mid-abdominal prolegs.\u00a0\u00a0 The long palpi have given rise to the name \u201csnouts\u201d for this genus, and so <em>Hypena californica<\/em> could perhaps be called the California Snout.\u00a0 This one ecloded (emerged) today and was released to the nettle patches on Lochside Drive north of Blenkinsop Lake.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_4524-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"538\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><em>Hypena californica <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Hypeninae)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 June 1 evening \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jeff Gaskin reports that on Monday May29, in Esquimalt Gorge Park he saw a Twelve-spotted Skimmer and a Western Pondhawk near the ponds in the Japanese gardens. &nbsp; Jeremy Tatum shows a photograph of a Hypena californica, reared from the caterpillar shown on May 19, morning.\u00a0\u00a0 Moths of the genus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18666","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\/18666","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18669,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18666\/revisions\/18669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}