{"id":21671,"date":"2024-05-26T21:17:28","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T04:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21671"},"modified":"2024-05-26T21:17:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T04:17:28","slug":"2024-may-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21671","title":{"rendered":"2024 May 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2024 May 26<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>In contrast to the particularly strikingly-patterned snout moth <em>Hypena bijugalis<\/em> shown on May 24, this snout is almost without any pattern.\u00a0 Because of its lack of pattern, it was difficult to identify, but Jeremy Tatum and Libby Avis agree that it is <strong><em>Hypena californica<\/em>.\u00a0 <\/strong>Both of these snout moths were reared from caterpillars found within a few yards of each other along the Lochside Trail north of Blenkinsop Lake.\u00a0 The <em>bijugalis <\/em>caterpillar was found last fall feeding on dogwood.\u00a0 It spent the winter as a pupa, and the moth emerged two days ago.\u00a0 The <em>californica <\/em>caterpillar was found just a few weeks ago feeding on nettle.\u00a0 The adult moth emerged just two days after the emergence of the <em>bijugalis.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You can see why they are called snouts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21670 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_4815-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"539\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_4815-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_4815-1024x654.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_4815-768x490.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_4815.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\" \/><em>Hypena californica <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Hypeninae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 May 26 \u00a0\u00a0 In contrast to the particularly strikingly-patterned snout moth Hypena bijugalis shown on May 24, this snout is almost without any pattern.\u00a0 Because of its lack of pattern, it was difficult to identify, but Jeremy Tatum and Libby Avis agree that it is Hypena californica.\u00a0 Both of these snout moths were reared [&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-21671","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\/21671","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=21671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21672,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21671\/revisions\/21672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}