{"id":3678,"date":"2017-02-24T07:20:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T15:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3678"},"modified":"2017-03-06T10:23:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T18:23:41","slug":"february-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3678","title":{"rendered":"February 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2017 February 24<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Note that today is February 24.\u00a0 Last year the first butterflies reported for the year were on February 25!\u00a0 (A Mourning Cloak and a Satyr Comma.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Dar Churcher sends us an interesting silhouette of <strong> <em>Alucita <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>montana<\/em><\/strong> from Metchosin, February 23.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Alucita3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Alucita3.jpg\" width=\"599.2\" height=\"522.9381818181819\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Alucita <\/em><em>montana<\/em> (Lep.:\u00a0 Alucitidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Dar Churcher<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 She also sends a picture of a spider and spiderlings.\u00a0 Robb Bennett writes:\u00a0 Not entirely sure, but I think it is a female <strong><em>Parasteatoda tepidariorum <\/em><\/strong>with spiderlings emerging from her two egg sacs.\u00a0 A common cob-web spider (Theridiidae)\u00a0 found in and around homes around the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"spiderlings.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/spiderlings.jpg\" width=\"599.2\" height=\"410.7796875\" 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_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><em>Parasteatoda tepidariorum <\/em>(Ara.: Theridiidae) Dar Churcher<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Ian Cruickshank sends a photograph of a mass of eggs of the <strong>Vapourer Moth <\/strong>(also called <strong>Rusty Tussock) <\/strong>laid by the flightless female on her own cocoon, Sidney Island, February 24.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Vapourer eggs.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Vapourer-eggs.jpg\" width=\"599.2\" height=\"428.428\" 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_image006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Vapourer Moth <em>Orgyia antiqua <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae &#8211; Lymantriinae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cruickshank<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 February 24 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Note that today is February 24.\u00a0 Last year the first butterflies reported for the year were on February 25!\u00a0 (A Mourning Cloak and a Satyr Comma.) \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Dar Churcher sends us an interesting silhouette of Alucita montana from Metchosin, February 23. &nbsp; Alucita montana (Lep.:\u00a0 Alucitidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Dar Churcher \u00a0\u00a0 [&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-3678","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\/3678","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=3678"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3712,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3678\/revisions\/3712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}