{"id":19122,"date":"2023-06-28T20:14:37","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T03:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19122"},"modified":"2023-06-29T21:50:50","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T04:50:50","slug":"2023-june-28-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19122","title":{"rendered":"2023 June 28 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2023 June 28 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Judy Smith found this caterpillar on her lettuces in Grant Street, Victoria.\u00a0 We thank Libby Avis for identifying it as <strong><em>Peridroma saucia<\/em>.\u00a0 <\/strong>The caterpillar is known as the <strong>Variegated Cutworm\u00b8 <\/strong>and the adult as the <strong>Pearly Underwing.\u00a0 <\/strong>Libby has been seeing lots of adults at light in Port Alberni for a few weeks now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19120 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Lettuce-noctuine-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Lettuce-noctuine-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Lettuce-noctuine-1024x594.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Lettuce-noctuine-768x445.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Lettuce-noctuine.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/strong><em>Peridroma saucia\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum shows a <strong>Satyr Comma<\/strong>, just emerged from its chrysalis today.\u00a0 It was released along the Lochside Trail, north of Blenkinsop Lake.\u00a0 This is a male. \u00a0Compare it with the female shown on June 26 morning.\u00a0 The underside of the male is more \u201cscribbly\u201d than that of the female.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19121 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_4650-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_4650-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_4650-1024x788.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_4650-768x591.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_4650.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/>Male Satyr Comma\u00a0 <em>Polygonia satyrus\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)<br \/>\nJeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum reports a <strong>Red Admiral<\/strong> on the Mount Tolmie reservoir at 5:00 pm today, June 28.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 June 28 evening \u00a0\u00a0 Judy Smith found this caterpillar on her lettuces in Grant Street, Victoria.\u00a0 We thank Libby Avis for identifying it as Peridroma saucia.\u00a0 The caterpillar is known as the Variegated Cutworm\u00b8 and the adult as the Pearly Underwing.\u00a0 Libby has been seeing lots of adults at light in Port Alberni for [&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-19122","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\/19122","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=19122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19137,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19122\/revisions\/19137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}