{"id":24560,"date":"2025-01-13T17:35:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T01:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=24560"},"modified":"2025-01-13T17:35:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T01:35:23","slug":"2025-january-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=24560","title":{"rendered":"2025 January 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2025 January 13<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No Invertebrate Alert was posted on January 12.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 A few days ago (see January 7) I got a surprise by finding a nice noctuid moth \u2013 a Girdler Moth <em>Dargida procincta.\u00a0 <\/em>Libby Avis writes that: \u201cPowell and Opler say the adults fly most of the year in the US, except for December and most of January, so that one may be less surprising given the mild winter.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Yesterday, continues Jeremy, I got another surprise of an unexpected winter noctuid.\u00a0 The handsome moth shown below emerged from a pupa that I had reared from caterpillar last year.\u00a0 Thanks to Libby for identifying it as a <strong>Great Brocade <em>Eurois occulta<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 This is even less likely to be seen as an adult in winter than a Girdler Moth. Libby has never seen an adult before June, and <em>Bug Guide <\/em>says: \u201cOne generation per year; overwintering larvae become active in April, feeding until pupation occurs in June or July; adults emerge and lay eggs in late summer; eggs hatch in fall, and partially-grown larva overwinters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, South, writing in 1907, says:\u00a0 It feeds in the autumn&#8230;. \u00a0 \u00a0 Usually it hibernates when small, but when kept indoors and fairly warm it can be induced to\u00a0complete growth, and attain the moth state in October or later, sometimes even earlier.<\/p>\n<p>So, although I didn\u2019t knowingly \u201cinduce\u201d it, it must have pupated early in the fall, instead of hibernating as a caterpillar as it should have done.\u00a0 I show the moth below.\u00a0 The caterpillar is shown on October 31, where I had originally mislabelled it as a Lesser Yellow Underwing <em>Noctua comes<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24558 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_5002-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_5002-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_5002-675x1024.jpg 675w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_5002-768x1165.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_5002.jpg 791w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/>Great Brocade <em>Eurois occulta <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025 January 13 No Invertebrate Alert was posted on January 12. Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 A few days ago (see January 7) I got a surprise by finding a nice noctuid moth \u2013 a Girdler Moth Dargida procincta.\u00a0 Libby Avis writes that: \u201cPowell and Opler say the adults fly most of the year in the US, [&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-24560","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\/24560","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=24560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24561,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24560\/revisions\/24561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}