{"id":2460,"date":"2016-05-17T08:46:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T16:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2460"},"modified":"2016-06-12T13:38:23","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T20:38:23","slug":"may-17-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2460","title":{"rendered":"May 17"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Don\u2019t sit too close to the screen.\u00a0 I have a bit of a cold, and I wouldn\u2019t want you to catch it.\u00a0 Although I\u2019m posting this on Tuesday morning, there probably won\u2019t be an evening posting today; the next posting will be tomorrow, and it will include some exciting goodies from Devon Parker. I\u2019m going to curl up in bed for a while.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 Mike Yip sends two photographs of Autographa californica<\/em><\/strong> from Nanoose Bay. Mike writes (tongue in cheek!) that he didn\u2019t realize that they have ears.\u00a0 Well, in fact, noctuid moths do have ears, with which they detect bats – but they are not the ear-like things that Mike is looking at on the second photograph!<\/p>\n

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\"\"Autographa californica <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/div>\n

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Autographa californica <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum shows photographs of two geometrid caterpillars.\u00a0 The first is that of an American Tissue Moth <\/strong>Triphosa haesitata<\/em><\/strong> from the egg found on Livesay Road, Central Saanich, and shown on April 28.\u00a0\u00a0 The adult moths of Triphosa haesitata <\/em>and Coryphista meadii<\/em> can be difficult to distinguish, but the caterpillars are very different.\u00a0 The caterpillar of Coryphista meadii<\/em> shown on May 6, is a brightly coloured, handsome creature.\u00a0 It feeds on Mahonia<\/em>.\u00a0 The caterpillar of Triphosa haesitata<\/em> is, well, what shall we say?\u00a0 More modest in its appearance, perhaps.\u00a0 It feeds on Frangula<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Triphosa haesitata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n

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The second geometrid caterpillar was found on Hardhack at Goldstream Park.\u00a0 For the time being I am tentatively labelling it Synaxis jubararia<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong> We shan\u2019t know for sure until we see the adult moth.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Probably Synaxis jubararia <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n

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2016 May 17 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Don\u2019t sit too close to the screen.\u00a0 I have a bit of a cold, and I wouldn\u2019t want you to catch it.\u00a0 Although I\u2019m posting this on Tuesday morning, there probably won\u2019t be an evening posting today; the next posting will be tomorrow, and it will include […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2460","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\/2460","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2689,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions\/2689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}