{"id":4169,"date":"2017-05-16T16:26:26","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T23:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4169"},"modified":"2017-05-16T16:27:45","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T23:27:45","slug":"may-15-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4169","title":{"rendered":"May 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2017 May 15<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; This pretty moth turned up at my Saanich apartment this morning.&nbsp; It is the same species as the one shown by Ken Vaughan on the May 7 posting &#8211;  <strong><em>Cyclophora dataria<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Moths in this genus are sometimes called &#8220;mochas&#8221;.&nbsp; Their pupae are interesting in that they are formed in just the same way as the chrysalides of pierid and papilionid butterflies &#8211; head up, the cremaster (hooks   at the tail end) embedded into a silken pad, and a single silken girdle around the waist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"769\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"C dataria.JPG\" height=\"380.9113333333333\" width=\"594.4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/C-dataria.jpg\"><br \/>  <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Cyclophora dataria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Mike Yip found this <strong>wolf spider<\/strong> yesterday while he was working in the garden.&nbsp; Robb Bennett writes:&nbsp; I&#8217;m pretty sure this is a female  <em>Alopecosa<\/em>. The species we get here on the coast is <strong><em>Alopecosa  <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>kochi<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"594\" originalwidth=\"731\" name=\"\" title=\"Alopecosa.jpg\" height=\"483.0008207934336\" width=\"594.4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Alopecosa-1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Alopecosa kochi <\/em>(Ara.: Lycosidae) &nbsp;Mike Yip  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 May 15 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; This pretty moth turned up at my Saanich apartment this morning.&nbsp; It is the same species as the one shown by Ken Vaughan on the May 7 posting &#8211; Cyclophora dataria.&nbsp; Moths in this genus are sometimes called &#8220;mochas&#8221;.&nbsp; Their pupae are interesting in that they are [&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-4169","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\/4169","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=4169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}