{"id":345,"date":"2015-09-27T02:46:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T09:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=345"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:38:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:38:00","slug":"september-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=345","title":{"rendered":"September 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">2015 September 26<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">In case you are wondering if your computer missed a beat, no it didn&rsquo;t &#8211; there wasn&rsquo;t a September 25 posting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">On September 24 I reported a sighting of <em><strong>Autographa californica <\/strong><\/em>nectaring &ldquo;in classical plusiine style&rdquo;.&nbsp; In case any viewer is wondering what than means, Devon Parker photographed his own <em><strong>Autographa californica <\/strong><\/em>nectaring &ldquo;in classical plusiine style&rdquo; on his lemon tree yesterday.&nbsp; See that haustellum probing for nectar!&nbsp; [An elephant has a proboscis; a moth has a haustellum.&nbsp; (But in ordinary conversation, proboscis is just fine!)]<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-343\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sept_26_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1086\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sept_26_1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sept_26_1-300x272.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sept_26_1-768x695.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sept_26_1-1024x927.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><em>Autographa californica <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp; Devon Parker<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna writes:&nbsp; Literally thousands of these impossibly small bugs flew out of the Salal this morning when we were clearing a trail in Otter Point this morning.&nbsp; They only seemed to be on the Salal.&nbsp;&nbsp; [Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; This is the first image we&rsquo;ve had of these bugs on this site.&nbsp; There are hundreds of species, so I shan&rsquo;t attempt an exact identification.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sept_26_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"892\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sept_26_2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sept_26_2-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sept_26_2-768x571.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sept_26_2-1024x761.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">Whitefly (Hem.: Aleyrodidae)&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 September 26 In case you are wondering if your computer missed a beat, no it didn&rsquo;t &#8211; there wasn&rsquo;t a September 25 posting. 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