{"id":18809,"date":"2023-06-11T07:58:46","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T14:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=18809"},"modified":"2023-06-11T22:20:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T05:20:39","slug":"2023-june-11-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=18809","title":{"rendered":"2023 June 11 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2023 June 11 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Help!\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I am currently rearing a caterpillar that feeds only upon Cascara <em>Frangula purshiana <\/em>(aka <em>Rhamnus purshiana<\/em>).\u00a0 At present I have to drive several miles daily to find this plant.\u00a0 Can anyone tell me where to find this plant nearer to my home?\u00a0 I do not need a general statement such as that it is common and widespread throughout the area.\u00a0\u00a0 What I need \u2013 ASAP \u00a0\u2013 \u00a0\u00a0is the exact location of an actual plant within two miles of my home, which is at the corner of Shelbourne Street and Cedar Hill Cross Road.\u00a0 Please let me know at tatumjb352 at gmail dot com<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime the only offering this morning is a tortricid moth, probably belonging to one or other of the genera <em>Choristoneura <\/em>or <em>Pandemis. <\/em>\u00a0Libby Avis points out that the flare near the apex of the forewings, which gives many tortricids &#8220;bell-shaped&#8221; wings, is more pronounced in<em> Choristoneura <\/em>than in <em>Pandemis.\u00a0 <\/em>That, plus other small details, makes it more likely that the moth shown is <em>Choristoneura rosaceana.<\/em><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18808 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/tortricid-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/tortricid-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/tortricid-737x1024.jpg 737w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/tortricid-768x1067.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/tortricid.jpg 813w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/>Probably\u00a0<em>Choristoneura rosaceana<\/em> (Lep.: Tortricidae) Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 June 11 morning \u00a0\u00a0 Help!\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I am currently rearing a caterpillar that feeds only upon Cascara Frangula purshiana (aka Rhamnus purshiana).\u00a0 At present I have to drive several miles daily to find this plant.\u00a0 Can anyone tell me where to find this plant nearer to my home?\u00a0 I do not need [&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-18809","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\/18809","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=18809"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18813,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18809\/revisions\/18813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}