{"id":19417,"date":"2023-07-20T18:54:39","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T01:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19417"},"modified":"2023-07-20T18:54:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T01:54:39","slug":"2023-july-20-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19417","title":{"rendered":"2023 July 20 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2023 July 20 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Below we show a male <strong>Rusty Tussock<\/strong> or <strong>Vapourer Moth.\u00a0 <\/strong>The female has no functional wings. The caterpillar from which this moth was reared is shown on July 2.\u00a0 The insect spent less than three weeks in the pupal stage.\u00a0 Tussock moths (Lymantriinae) are named for the characteristic tussocks of hairs on the caterpillars.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know for sure the origin of the name \u201cVapourer\u201d moth, unless it be for the copious pheromones emitted by the flightless female.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19416 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Adult-Vapourer-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Adult-Vapourer-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Adult-Vapourer-804x1024.jpg 804w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Adult-Vapourer-768x978.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Adult-Vapourer.jpg 829w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/>Rusty Tussock or Vapourer\u00a0 <em>Orgyia antiqua<br \/>\n<\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Lymantriinae)<br \/>\nJeremy Tatum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 July 20 evening Below we show a male Rusty Tussock or Vapourer Moth.\u00a0 The female has no functional wings. The caterpillar from which this moth was reared is shown on July 2.\u00a0 The insect spent less than three weeks in the pupal stage.\u00a0 Tussock moths (Lymantriinae) are named for the characteristic tussocks of hairs [&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-19417","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\/19417","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=19417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19418,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19417\/revisions\/19418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}