{"id":4854,"date":"2017-08-24T16:06:49","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T23:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4854"},"modified":"2017-08-30T11:18:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T18:18:42","slug":"august-24-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4854","title":{"rendered":"August 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2017 August 24<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Here is a chrysalis of a <strong>Western Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong>.\u00a0 These swallowtails are quite clever.\u00a0 The pupae can vary in colour from green to brown, depending on the background upon which they are formed.\u00a0 If they pupate in a well-lit area among green leaves, they will be green; but if they pupate in a darker area they are brown.\u00a0 This one chose a particularly dark area, and it is one of the darkest swallowtail pupae that I have seen.\u00a0 By the way, in case you are wondering, it is facing toward the left.<\/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\" style=\"width: 322px; height: 484px;\" title=\"rutulus pu.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/rutulus-pu.jpg\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Western Tiger Swallowtail <em>Papilio rutulus <\/em> Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Below is the third photograph that I have taken of this caterpillar because at first I thought it was a lifer for me.\u00a0 By the time that it reached its final instar, however, I realized that it was a <strong>Yellow Woolly Bear<\/strong>, or <strong>Virginia Ermine.<\/strong><\/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_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"arctiine3.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/arctiine3.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"397.3333333333333\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Spilosoma virginica<\/em> (Lep.: Erebidae &#8211; Arctiinae) Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 The\u00a0 caterpillar below, found on willow at King\u2019s Pond, is quite small, and I am hoping it will grow. It is long and slender and it walks in full looper fashion just like a geometrid.\u00a0 However, the number of midabdominal prolegs isn&#8217;t right for a geometrid.\u00a0 It has two functional pairs and two vestigial pairs, and it may belong to another family.\u00a0 [Added later:\u00a0 As the caterpillar grew, it became obvious that it wasn&#8217;t a geometrid.\u00a0 It is a <strong><em>Zale<\/em><\/strong><em>.<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 516px; height: 546px;\" title=\"geom morelegs.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/geom-morelegs.jpg\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Zale <\/em>sp. (Lep.: Erebidae)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 August 24 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Here is a chrysalis of a Western Tiger Swallowtail.\u00a0 These swallowtails are quite clever.\u00a0 The pupae can vary in colour from green to brown, depending on the background upon which they are formed.\u00a0 If they pupate in a well-lit area among green leaves, they will be green; [&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-4854","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\/4854","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=4854"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4909,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854\/revisions\/4909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}