{"id":24323,"date":"2024-11-30T20:44:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T04:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=24323"},"modified":"2024-11-30T20:46:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T04:46:16","slug":"tt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=24323","title":{"rendered":"2024 November 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2024 November 30<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No Invertebrate Alert was issued on November 29.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Dr Robb Bennett writes:\u00a0 One of my sons found several of these masses of cocooned caterpillars in his very dry and covered firewood supply. Very tough silk and they had virtually glued pieces of wood together.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 There must be between 100 and 200 of these cocoons. As Robb says, the cocoons are made of very tough silk, and each one examined contains a caterpillar, not yet a pupa.\u00a0\u00a0 We don\u2019t know what they are, but with luck eventually one or two moths will emerge and we may possibly then be able to identify them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24329 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1000014968-1-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"587\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1000014968-1-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1000014968-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 587px) 100vw, 587px\" \/>Mass of from 100 to 200 unidentified moth cocoons.\u00a0\u00a0 Robb Bennett<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24328 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1000014964-1-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"583\" height=\"711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1000014964-1-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1000014964-1-840x1024.jpg 840w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1000014964-1-768x936.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1000014964-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/>Caterpillars from the above cocoons\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Robb Bennett<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here are more pictures taken during Ian Cooper\u2019s \u00a0November \u00a026 photo shoot in *Colquitz River Park in Saanich and the #Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24324 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11112661c-pronuba-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"597\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11112661c-pronuba-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11112661c-pronuba-1024x659.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11112661c-pronuba-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11112661c-pronuba.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/>*Large Yellow Underwing Moth \u00a0<em>Noctua pronuba <\/em>\u00a0(Lep.: Noctuidae) \u00a0Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24326 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11112747cs-springtail-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11112747cs-springtail-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11112747cs-springtail-1024x689.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11112747cs-springtail-768x516.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11112747cs-springtail.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/>#Globular Springtail <em>Ptenothrix <\/em>sp<em>.<\/em>\u00a0(Coll.: Dicyrtomidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24325 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11112700c-slug-300x253.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11112700c-slug-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11112700c-slug-1024x862.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11112700c-slug-768x646.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11112700c-slug.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>*Grey Field Slug \u00a0<em>Deroceras reticulatum<\/em>\u00a0(Pul.: Agriolimacidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24327 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11112766c-slug2-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11112766c-slug2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11112766c-slug2-1024x679.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11112766c-slug2-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11112766c-slug2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/>#Longneck Field Slug \u00a0<em>Deroceras invadens<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; (Pul.: Agriolimacidae) \u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 November 30 No Invertebrate Alert was issued on November 29. \u00a0\u00a0 Dr Robb Bennett writes:\u00a0 One of my sons found several of these masses of cocooned caterpillars in his very dry and covered firewood supply. Very tough silk and they had virtually glued pieces of wood together. Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 There must be between [&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-24323","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\/24323","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=24323"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24332,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24323\/revisions\/24332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}