{"id":203,"date":"2016-02-17T01:46:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T09:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=203"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:37:58","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:37:58","slug":"february-16th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"February 16th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">2016 February 16<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">Devon Parker writes:&nbsp; I was in the Copper Canyon (Chemainus) area near Hill 60 and found a caterpillar and a spider. Any idea what species they could be?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; The caterpillar is a noctuid &#8211; which doesn&rsquo;t say much, since it is a large Family.&nbsp; It is probably in its penultimate instar and it is preparing for ecdysis (skin change) in the near future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">&nbsp; Robb Bennett writes:&nbsp; The spider is a female <em>Pardosa<\/em> wolf spider.&nbsp; I can&rsquo;t tell which species of <em>Pardosa <\/em>it is &ndash; there are quite a few to choose from!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-201\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_0979.JPG\" alt=\"IMG 0979\" width=\"1200\" height=\"748\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_0979.JPG 1200w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_0979-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_0979-768x479.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_0979-1024x638.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Noctuid caterpillar (Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp; Devon Parker<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-202\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_0944.JPG\" alt=\"IMG 0944\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_0944.JPG 1200w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_0944-293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_0944-768x785.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_0944-1001x1024.jpg 1001w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Wolf spider <em><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">Pardosa <\/span><\/em>sp. (Ara.: Lycosidae) Devon Parker<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2016 February 16 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Devon Parker writes:&nbsp; I was in the Copper Canyon (Chemainus) area near Hill 60 and found a caterpillar and a spider. Any idea what species they could be? &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; The caterpillar is a noctuid &#8211; which doesn&rsquo;t say much, since it is a large Family.&nbsp; It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1561,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/1561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}