{"id":23668,"date":"2024-09-24T19:13:08","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T02:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=23668"},"modified":"2024-09-26T07:02:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T14:02:10","slug":"2024-september-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=23668","title":{"rendered":"2024 September 24"},"content":{"rendered":"

2024 September 24<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 <\/strong>On September 6 Ian Cooper came across a white caterpillar with red spiracles hiding in a folded dead maple leaf on the ground along the Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal.\u00a0 Because it was half hidden in the dead leaf, it was impossible to get a perfect photograph without disturbing the caterpillar.\u00a0 Nevertheless, Ian got the photograph shown below.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Sabulodes aegrotata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Ian handed the caterpillar to me for rearing, and, before I could get any further photographs, the caterpillar had made a white silken cocoon.\u00a0 Just three days ago I had occasion to look inside the cocoon, and I discovered a pupa inside, white as the driven snow, something I had never seen before:<\/p>\n

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\"\"Sabulodes aegrotata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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Today, September 24, the adult moth emerged, enabling the identification as Sabulodes aegrotata<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 After photography, I released it along the Lochside Trail near Blenkinsop Lake.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Sabulodes aegrotata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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This was an interesting find, because I had never before seen a moth pupa as white as this one.\u00a0 Also, the caterpillar apparently has the English name Omnivorous Looper<\/strong>, suggesting that it is quite a well-known caterpillar, yet none of the images of the caterpillars of S. aegrotata<\/em> that I could find on the Internet look at all like this one.<\/p>\n

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Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0 This morning, September 24, at Swan Lake there were at least 2 Blue-eyed<\/strong> and 2 Paddle-tailed Darners<\/strong>.\u00a0 Also, there were a few other darners which I was unable to identify, and one Blue Dasher.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 There were still one or two Cabbage White <\/strong>butterflies flying around in Mount View and Swan Creek Parks this morning (September 24).\u00a0 When will the last butterfly be reported?\u00a0 Is an October butterfly sighting possible?<\/p>\n

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2024 September 24 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 On September 6 Ian Cooper came across a white caterpillar with red spiracles hiding in a folded dead maple leaf on the ground along the Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal.\u00a0 Because it was half hidden in the dead leaf, it was impossible to get a perfect photograph […]<\/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-23668","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\/23668","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=23668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23685,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23668\/revisions\/23685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}