{"id":270,"date":"2015-11-08T00:08:51","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T08:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=270"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:37:59","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:37:59","slug":"november-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=270","title":{"rendered":"November 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">2015 November 7<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; Here is a <strong>White-speck Moth <\/strong><em><strong>Mythimna unipuncta <\/strong><\/em>from my Saanich apartment this morning.&nbsp; I have never seen the caterpillar, but in some parts of North America it can be exceedingly abundant and destructive. Apparently in large numbers it can denude an entire field of low-growing plants at night, and then the caterpillars migrate in a huge <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">army<\/span> to a neighbouring field.&nbsp; In agricultural circles, the caterpillar is known as the <strong>Armyworm<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-269\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nov_7_1.jpg\" alt=\"Nov 7 1\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1002\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nov_7_1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nov_7_1-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nov_7_1-768x641.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nov_7_1-1024x855.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><em>Mythimna unipuncta <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 November 7 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; Here is a White-speck Moth Mythimna unipuncta from my Saanich apartment this morning.&nbsp; I have never seen the caterpillar, but in some parts of North America it can be exceedingly abundant and destructive. Apparently in large numbers it can denude an entire field of low-growing plants at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","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=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1579,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/1579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}