{"id":21666,"date":"2024-05-24T20:49:46","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T03:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21666"},"modified":"2024-05-27T19:59:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T02:59:34","slug":"2024-may-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21666","title":{"rendered":"2024 May 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2024 May 24<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Heather Trondsen sent this photograph of a moth pupa that she found in her Sooke garden under a bunch of maple leaves.\u00a0 It is difficult to identify a moth from its pupa, but Jeremy Tatum makes a wild guess at possibly the hawk moth <em>Smerinthus ophthalmica.\u00a0 <\/em>If it is, the foodplant was unlikely to be maple \u2013 they usually feed on willow. <em>\u00a0<\/em>We shall see, in due course, what it turns out to be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21662 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Heather-pupa-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"548\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Heather-pupa-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Heather-pupa-768x570.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Heather-pupa.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/>Possibly <em>Smerinthus ophthalmica<\/em>? (Lep.: Sphingidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Heather Trondsen<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum found the caterpillar of the moth below on <em>Cornus stolonifera<\/em> along the Lochside Trail between Blenkinsop Lake and Lohbrunners last September. The caterpillar is shown on the posting for 2023 September 12.\u00a0 The adult moth emerged today, May 24, and was released near where the caterpillar was found.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21663 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_4808-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_4808-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_4808-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_4808-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_4808.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/>Female<em> Hypena bijugalis <\/em>\u00a0(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Hypeninae) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 May 24 Heather Trondsen sent this photograph of a moth pupa that she found in her Sooke garden under a bunch of maple leaves.\u00a0 It is difficult to identify a moth from its pupa, but Jeremy Tatum makes a wild guess at possibly the hawk moth Smerinthus ophthalmica.\u00a0 If it is, the foodplant 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-21666","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\/21666","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=21666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21674,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21666\/revisions\/21674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}