{"id":19406,"date":"2023-07-20T11:29:44","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T18:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19406"},"modified":"2023-07-20T11:29:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T18:29:44","slug":"2023-july-20-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19406","title":{"rendered":"2023 July 20 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2023 July 20<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Here is a <strong>Pearly Underwing Moth <em>Peridroma saucia<\/em>.\u00a0 <\/strong>The caterpillar was shown on June 28 evening.\u00a0 The pupal stage lasted only three weeks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19404 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4685-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"518\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4685-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4685-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4685-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4685.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><em>Peridroma saucia <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Val George writes:\u00a0 This long-horned beetle (<strong><em>Centrodera spurca<\/em>)<\/strong> was on the wall of my Oak Bay house yesterday, July19. It was trapped there because one of its hind legs was caught in the spider thread visible in the photo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19405 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Centrodera-spurca-Yellow-Douglas-Fir-Borer-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"518\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Centrodera-spurca-Yellow-Douglas-Fir-Borer-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Centrodera-spurca-Yellow-Douglas-Fir-Borer-1024x709.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Centrodera-spurca-Yellow-Douglas-Fir-Borer-768x532.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Centrodera-spurca-Yellow-Douglas-Fir-Borer.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/>Yellow Douglas-fir Borer <em>Centrodera spurca <\/em>(Col.: Cerambycidae) Val George<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jochen M\u00f6hr sends a photograph of a curious moth from Metchosin.\u00a0 It seems to be a male <em>Malacosoma<\/em> \u2013 but it has none of the usual transverse lines of our two familiar species.\u00a0 I can only think (writes Jeremy Tatum) that it is an unusual \u201c<em>ab<\/em>\u201d\u00a0 (aberration) of one of the two \u2013 but which one,\u00a0 I cannot tell.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19403 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/P1740412-rot-crop-300x262.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"472\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/P1740412-rot-crop-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/P1740412-rot-crop-1024x893.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/P1740412-rot-crop-768x670.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/P1740412-rot-crop.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><em>Malacosoma <\/em>sp.\u00a0 (Lep.: Lasiocampidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 July 20 \u00a0\u00a0 Here is a Pearly Underwing Moth Peridroma saucia.\u00a0 The caterpillar was shown on June 28 evening.\u00a0 The pupal stage lasted only three weeks. Peridroma saucia (Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum &nbsp; Val George writes:\u00a0 This long-horned beetle (Centrodera spurca) was on the wall of my Oak Bay house yesterday, July19. It was [&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-19406","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\/19406","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=19406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19407,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19406\/revisions\/19407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}