{"id":20942,"date":"2024-03-11T18:26:36","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T01:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=20942"},"modified":"2024-03-11T18:26:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T01:26:36","slug":"2024-march-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=20942","title":{"rendered":"2024 March 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2024 March 11<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Kirsten Mills sends a picture of a <strong>Banded Woolly Bear <\/strong>caterpillar from Swan Lake, March 9.\u00a0 We are accustomed to seeing many of these in October, after which they hide away somewhere over the winter.\u00a0 Overwintering caterpillars are not at all easy to rear.\u00a0 Occasionally Banded Woolly Bears are to be found early in spring, after they have woken up from wherever they have spent the winter.\u00a0 When they are found in spring, they have usually finished feeding, and are looking for somewhere to spin a cocoon and pupate.\u00a0 They are then easy to rear to adulthood.\u00a0 The adult moths are called <strong>Isabella Tiger Moths.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20937 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/DSCN3875-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/DSCN3875-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/DSCN3875-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/DSCN3875.jpg 1008w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/strong>Banded Woolly Bear\u00a0 <em>Pyrrharctia isabella\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Arctiinae)\u00a0 Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kirsten also found at Swan Lake this early <strong>European Paper Wasp:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20938 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/PSX_20240310_205808-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/PSX_20240310_205808-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/PSX_20240310_205808.jpg 427w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/strong>European Paper Wasp\u00a0 <em>Polistes dominula\u00a0 <\/em>(Hym.: Vespidae)\u00a0 Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 March 11 \u00a0\u00a0 Kirsten Mills sends a picture of a Banded Woolly Bear caterpillar from Swan Lake, March 9.\u00a0 We are accustomed to seeing many of these in October, after which they hide away somewhere over the winter.\u00a0 Overwintering caterpillars are not at all easy to rear.\u00a0 Occasionally Banded Woolly Bears are to be [&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-20942","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\/20942","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=20942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20943,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20942\/revisions\/20943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}