{"id":4995,"date":"2017-09-09T18:38:07","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T01:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4995"},"modified":"2017-09-09T18:48:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T01:48:33","slug":"september-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4995","title":{"rendered":"September 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2017 September 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Annie Pang sends a photograph of a <strong>Spotted Tiger Moth  <\/strong>caterpillar, which she is going to rear.&nbsp; We look forward to seeing the adult next spring.<\/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_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"706\" originalwidth=\"1016\" name=\"\" title=\"Annie Pang mac.jpg\" height=\"414.14960629921256\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Annie-Pang-mac.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Spotted Tiger Moth <em>Lophocampa maculata <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae &#8211; Arctiinae)&nbsp; Annie Pang<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I believe my <em>Zale<\/em> is now in its final instar:<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">  <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"876\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"Zale dorlat2.JPG\" height=\"435.08\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Zale-dorlat2.jpg\"><br \/>  <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Zale <\/em>sp. (Lep.: Erebidae &#8211; Erebinae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum found two very common moths outside his back door today.&nbsp; The first,  <strong><em>Noctua pronuba<\/em><\/strong>,<em> <\/em>is a European native.&nbsp; The second,  <strong><em>Neoalcis californiaria<\/em><\/strong>, is very much a West Coast native, and it seems to have been particularly common and widespread this year.&nbsp; The antennae of the one shown below are threadlike, and the moth is presumably a female.&nbsp; Some other   examples of this species seen on this site in recent days have had feathery, bipectinate antennae, and are presumably females.<\/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_image006.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"667\" originalwidth=\"1000\" name=\"\" title=\"L Yellow Und.JPG\" height=\"397.532\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/L-Yellow-Und.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Large Yellow Underwing <em>Noctua pronuba <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"698\" originalwidth=\"1000\" name=\"\" title=\"Neoalcis c.JPG\" height=\"416.008\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Neoalcis-c.jpg\"><br \/>  <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Neoalcis californiaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 September 7 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Annie Pang sends a photograph of a Spotted Tiger Moth caterpillar, which she is going to rear.&nbsp; We look forward to seeing the adult next spring. &nbsp; Spotted Tiger Moth Lophocampa maculata (Lep.: Erebidae &#8211; Arctiinae)&nbsp; Annie Pang &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I believe my Zale is now in [&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-4995","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\/4995","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=4995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}