{"id":2972,"date":"2016-07-21T18:28:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T02:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2972"},"modified":"2016-07-22T08:44:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T15:44:00","slug":"july-21-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2972","title":{"rendered":"July 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2016 July 21<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Val George writes:\u00a0 This <strong>Silver-spotted Tiger Moth <\/strong><strong><em>Lophocampa argentata<\/em><\/strong> was beside a road near my house in Oak Bay on July 21.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 483px;\" title=\"Silver-spotted Tiger Moth 2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Silver-spotted-Tiger-Moth-2.jpg\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Silver-spotted Tiger Moth <em>Lophocampa argentata <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae &#8211; Arctiinae)<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Val George\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Samantha sends a photograph of a group of nymphs of the <strong>Birch Bug <\/strong> &#8211; appropriately on a birch catkin. Thanks to Scott Gilmore for the identification. There is an interesting account of this species at<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/entomofaune.qc.ca\/entomofaune\/punaises\/punaises_acanthosomatidae.html\">http:\/\/entomofaune.qc.ca\/entomofaune\/punaises\/punaises_acanthosomatidae.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 407px; height: 554px;\" title=\"Birch Bug.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Birch-Bug.jpg\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Birch Bug <em>Elasmucha lateralis <\/em>(Hem.: Acanthosomatidae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Samantha<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Annie Pang sends a photograph of\u00a0 the beetle <em>Leptura obliterata<\/em>, from Gorge Park, July 21.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Leptura.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Leptura.jpg\" width=\"599.2\" height=\"473.3371134020619\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>Leptura obliterata <\/em>(Col.: Cerambycidae) \u00a0Annie Pang<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2016 July 21 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Val George writes:\u00a0 This Silver-spotted Tiger Moth Lophocampa argentata was beside a road near my house in Oak Bay on July 21. &nbsp; Silver-spotted Tiger Moth Lophocampa argentata (Lep.: Erebidae &#8211; Arctiinae) Val George \u00a0\u00a0 Samantha sends a photograph of a group of nymphs of the Birch Bug &#8211; appropriately [&hellip;]<\/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-2972","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\/2972","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=2972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2978,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions\/2978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}