{"id":5215,"date":"2017-10-10T16:36:08","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T23:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5215"},"modified":"2017-10-10T16:39:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T23:39:16","slug":"october-10-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5215","title":{"rendered":"October 10 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2017 October 10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Robert Wilson sent me two photographs of a caterpillar that wandered across his driveway on Triangle Mountain, Colwood, today.&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; It is a species of  <strong><em>Panthea<\/em><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Not sure whether it is  <em>P. virginarius <\/em>or <em>P. portlandia<\/em> &#8211; but these names may belong to a single species anyway, so I&#8217;ll label it probably  <em>virginarius.<\/em><em>&nbsp; <\/em>The caterpillar feeds on Douglas Fir.<\/p>\n<p>  <em><\/em>  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">  <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"488\" originalwidth=\"1024\" name=\"\" title=\"portlandia1.jpg\" height=\"284.03125\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/portlandia1.jpg\"><br \/>  <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Panthea <\/em>(probably <em>virginarius<\/em>) (Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp; Robert Wilson<\/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_image004.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"707\" originalwidth=\"1024\" name=\"\" title=\"portlandia2.jpg\" height=\"411.49609375\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/portlandia2.jpg\"><br \/>  <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Panthea <\/em>(probably <em>virginarius<\/em>) (Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp; Robert Wilson<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum reports that he saw a <strong>Cabbage White<\/strong> in Oak Bay today.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 October 10 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Robert Wilson sent me two photographs of a caterpillar that wandered across his driveway on Triangle Mountain, Colwood, today.&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; It is a species of Panthea.&nbsp;&nbsp; Not sure whether it is P. virginarius or P. portlandia &#8211; but these names may belong to a single species anyway, so [&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-5215","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\/5215","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=5215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}