{"id":3192,"date":"2016-09-16T18:17:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T02:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3192"},"modified":"2016-09-16T19:22:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T02:22:49","slug":"september-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3192","title":{"rendered":"September 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2016 September 16<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Gordon Hart came across two demonstration-size caterpillars within a few minutes and a few feet of each other at his Highlands garden today.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" originalheight=\"228\" originalwidth=\"475\" name=\"\" title=\"Sphinx.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Sphinx.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;Cerisy&#8217;s Eyed Hawk Moth <em>Smerinthus cerisyi <\/em>  (Lep.: Sphingidae)&nbsp; Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" hasheight=\"true\" setwidth=\"491\" setheight=\"369\" style=\"width: 491px; height: 369px;\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" originalheight=\"375\" originalwidth=\"500\" name=\"\" title=\"poly.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/poly.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\">Polyphemus Moth  <em>Antheraea polyphemus <\/em>(Lep.: Saturniidae)&nbsp; Gordon Hart<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; There are still lots of <strong>Cabbage Whites <\/strong>around, and Jeremy Tatum watched one ovipositing on  <em>Cakile<\/em> at Weir&#8217;s Beach today.&nbsp; There&#8217;s a photograph of one of the eggs below.  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"765\" originalwidth=\"977\" name=\"\" title=\"Cabbage ovum.JPG\" height=\"469.17911975435004\" width=\"599.2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Cabbage-ovum.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\">Cabbage White  <em>Pieris rapae <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; The <strong>Pale Tiger Swallowtail <\/strong>caterpillar that Devon Parker found on Mount Sicker (see September 9 posting) pupated today.&nbsp; Photograph below.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"920\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"Pale Tiger pu.JPG\" height=\"459.38666666666666\" width=\"599.2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Pale-Tiger-pu.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\">Pale Tiger Swallowtail  <em>Papilio eurymedon <\/em>(Lep.: Papilionidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Jeff Gaskin writes:&nbsp; Kirsten Mills, tells me that on Tuesday September 13 she and Marie O&#8217;Shaughnessy saw a  <strong>Pine White<\/strong> in East Sooke Park by Aylard Farm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2016 September 16 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Gordon Hart came across two demonstration-size caterpillars within a few minutes and a few feet of each other at his Highlands garden today. &nbsp;Cerisy&#8217;s Eyed Hawk Moth Smerinthus cerisyi (Lep.: Sphingidae)&nbsp; Gordon Hart &nbsp; Polyphemus Moth Antheraea polyphemus (Lep.: Saturniidae)&nbsp; Gordon Hart &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; There are still lots of Cabbage [&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-3192","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\/3192","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=3192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}