{"id":4240,"date":"2017-05-25T16:47:26","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T23:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4240"},"modified":"2017-05-25T16:50:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T23:50:49","slug":"may-25-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4240","title":{"rendered":"May 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2017 May 25<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Wylie Thomas found another <strong><em>Cat<\/em><\/strong><strong>  <\/strong>on the Broom in Uplands Park &#8211; doubtless blown off a nearby oak in yesterday&#8217;s gale.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"1200\" originalwidth=\"1109\" name=\"\" title=\"Cat aho.JPG\" height=\"643.1740306582506\" width=\"594.4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Cat-aho.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\"><em>Catocala aholibah  <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae &#8211; Catocalinae) Wylie Thomas<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Yesterday Gordon Hart followed a <strong><em>Leptostales rubromarginaria <\/em>  <\/strong>near the<em> <\/em>Pike Lake substation ponds, and he eventually found it  <em>in cop<\/em> with another individual.&nbsp; The two were slightly different in coloration, one much paler than the other.&nbsp; It would be interesting to know if this is sexual dimorphism, or if one were merely more worn than the other.&nbsp; The immature stages and larval   foodplant of this tiny reddish day-flying geometrid are unknown. Gordon&#8217;s observation shows that the species is likely to be ovipositing in that area right now.&nbsp; Here is someone&#8217;s chance to make a contribution to knowledge! &nbsp;If anyone sees one ovipositing,   please save the egg &#8211; Jeremy Tatum would be eager to rear it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"989\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"L rubromarginaria.jpg\" height=\"489.88466666666665\" width=\"594.4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/L-rubromarginaria.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\"><em>Leptostales rubromarginaria  <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Gordon Hart<\/div>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 May 25 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Wylie Thomas found another Cat on the Broom in Uplands Park &#8211; doubtless blown off a nearby oak in yesterday&#8217;s gale. &nbsp; Catocala aholibah (Lep.: Erebidae &#8211; Catocalinae) Wylie Thomas &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Yesterday Gordon Hart followed a Leptostales rubromarginaria near the Pike Lake substation ponds, and he eventually found [&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-4240","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\/4240","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=4240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}