{"id":5190,"date":"2017-10-04T09:05:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T16:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5190"},"modified":"2017-10-05T12:10:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T19:10:24","slug":"october-4-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5190","title":{"rendered":"October 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2017 October 4 morning<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jochen Moehr writes:\u00a0 This <strong><em>Ennomos magnaria<\/em><\/strong> was sitting on my wall in Metchosin all day yesterday.<\/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\" title=\"Ennomos.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Ennomos.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"496.16999999999996\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Ennomos magnaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\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;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Ennomos close.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Ennomos-close.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"381.57833655705997\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Ennomos magnaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Jody Wells writes:\u00a0 At first I thought this Chestnut-backed Chickadee was eating a bud on a branch\u2026but NO a really camouflaged caterpillar type insect. Very interested in what type of insect this might be.\u00a0 About 35 feet up in a Weeping Willow.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum responds:\u00a0 What a gruesome photograph!\u00a0 I can\u2019t possibly identify the caterpillar, though I think it is probably a geometrid. \u00a0Willow is a sort of default foodplant for many species of caterpillar. Are there more of these caterpillars still there?\u00a0 If so, I\u2019d be interested.<\/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;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Chickadee.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Chickadee.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"626.2697022767076\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Chestnut-backed Chickadee <em>Poecile<\/em>\u00a0<em>rufescens<\/em> (Pas.: Paridae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">with caterpillar (Lep.: Probably Geometridae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Jody Wells<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Scott Gilmore writes from Upper Lantzville: I found this <strong><em>Lophocampa roseata<\/em><\/strong> caterpillar in the middle of the car park at work this afternoon. I moved it to the side so it had a better chance to pupate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"roseata dor.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/roseata-dor.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"582.9298245614035\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Lophocampa roseata <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae &#8211; Arctiinae)\u00a0 Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image010.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"roseata lat.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/roseata-lat.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"447\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Lophocampa roseata <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae &#8211; Arctiinae)\u00a0 Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 October 4 morning \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jochen Moehr writes:\u00a0 This Ennomos magnaria was sitting on my wall in Metchosin all day yesterday. &nbsp; Ennomos magnaria (Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen Moehr Ennomos magnaria (Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen Moehr \u00a0\u00a0 Jody Wells writes:\u00a0 At first I thought this Chestnut-backed Chickadee was eating a bud on a branch\u2026but NO a [&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-5190","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\/5190","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=5190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5198,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190\/revisions\/5198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}