{"id":3345,"date":"2016-10-08T13:52:38","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T21:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3345"},"modified":"2016-10-08T14:56:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T21:56:51","slug":"october-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3345","title":{"rendered":"October 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2016 October 8<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I show below two photographs of a chrysalis of the  <strong>Two-banded Grizzled Skipper<\/strong>, resulting from an ovum that Devon Parker found in the spring.&nbsp; This hardly counts as an &#8220;alert&#8221; and strictly should not be allowed!&nbsp; I couldn&#8217;t get my camera to where the caterpillar had hidden itself earlier on,   but today, while preparing my pupae for the winter, I was forced to move it, so I took the opportunity of photographing it.&nbsp; I thought I should post the photos, because I doubt if the pupa of this species has been photographed very often.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; I also post a photograph of an <strong>Indian Meal Moth<\/strong> from a corridor wall in my Saanich apartment building this morning.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"815\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"Grizzled pu dors .JPG\" height=\"406.9566666666667\" width=\"599.2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Grizzled-pu-dors-.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_image002.jpg\">Two-banded Grizzled Skipper  <em>Pyrgus ruralis <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"984\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"Grizzled pu vent.JPG\" height=\"491.344\" width=\"599.2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Grizzled-pu-vent.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\">Two-banded Grizzled Skipper  <em>Pyrgus ruralis <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" hasheight=\"true\" setwidth=\"403\" setheight=\"507\" style=\"width: 403px; height: 507px;\" originalheight=\"1200\" originalwidth=\"952\" name=\"\" title=\"Indian Meal.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Indian-Meal.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\">Indian Meal Moth  <em>Plodia interpunctella <\/em>(Lep.: Pyralidae) Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2016 October 8 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I show below two photographs of a chrysalis of the Two-banded Grizzled Skipper, resulting from an ovum that Devon Parker found in the spring.&nbsp; This hardly counts as an &#8220;alert&#8221; 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