{"id":317,"date":"2015-09-16T02:43:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T09:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=317"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:38:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:38:00","slug":"september-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"September 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">2015 September 14<\/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 reports an <strong>Indian Meal Moth<\/strong> from his Saanich apartment yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sept_14_1.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1098\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sept_14_1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sept_14_1-300x275.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sept_14_1-768x703.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sept_14_1-1024x937.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">Indian Meal Moth <em>Plodia interpunctella <\/em>(Lep.: Pyralidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Nathan Fisk writes:&nbsp; Found this big character near a large ocean spray at Fort Rodd.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">Jeremy Tatum responds:&nbsp; At first I thought this was the usual <em>Smerinthus cerisyi, <\/em>but on closer perusal I saw that it is the decidedly uncommon <em><strong>Paonias excaecatus<\/strong><\/em><strong>.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>One very obvious clue is the colour of the caudal horn, which is blue in <em>cerisyi<\/em>.&nbsp; Nathan says that the caterpillar was about 7 cm long.&nbsp; The Indian Meal moth above, on the other hand, was 9 mm long.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-316\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sept_14_2.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sept_14_2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sept_14_2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sept_14_2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sept_14_2-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">Paonias excaecatus <\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">(Lep.: &nbsp;Sphingidae)&nbsp; Nathan Fisk<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 September 14 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum reports an Indian Meal Moth from his Saanich apartment yesterday. Indian Meal Moth Plodia interpunctella (Lep.: Pyralidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum &nbsp;&nbsp; Nathan Fisk writes:&nbsp; Found this big character near a large ocean spray at Fort Rodd. Jeremy Tatum responds:&nbsp; At first I thought this was the usual Smerinthus cerisyi, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","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\/317","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=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1609,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/1609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}