{"id":4064,"date":"2017-05-05T16:44:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T23:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4064"},"modified":"2017-05-09T11:12:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T18:12:15","slug":"may-5-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4064","title":{"rendered":"May 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2017 May 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Mike Yip writes from Nanoose Bay:\u00a0 I would like to compile a list of butterfly friendly garden flowers so I&#8217;m hoping you will post a note asking the invert folks to send me a list of their garden flowers and the butterflies that like nectaring on them. If you like I can send\u00a0you the list to publish later in the summer. My email is mikyip AT hotmail DOT com.\u00a0 Mike also sends a photograph of a moth,\u00a0<em><strong>Behrensia<\/strong><\/em><strong> conchiformis<\/strong>, that he found when he was cutting some alder firewood.\u00a0 <em>B. conchiformis<\/em> is remarkable in that a freshly emerged specimen shines, when illuminated in\u00a0 sunlight at the right angle, with brilliant, sparkling bright green areas.\u00a0 The caterpillar, too is quite distinctive.\u00a0 It feeds on the leaves of Snowberry, and it rests by stretching itself fully elongated and closely appressed to a twig, so that it is very difficult to detect.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"170505home-037.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/170505home-037.jpg\" width=\"594.4\" height=\"396.26666666666665\" 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_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><em>Behrensia conchiformis <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 May 5 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Mike Yip writes from Nanoose Bay:\u00a0 I would like to compile a list of butterfly friendly garden flowers so I&#8217;m hoping you will post a note asking the invert folks to send me a list of their garden flowers and the butterflies that like nectaring on them. If you like [&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-4064","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\/4064","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=4064"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4127,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064\/revisions\/4127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}