{"id":5392,"date":"2017-12-21T11:22:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T19:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5392"},"modified":"2017-12-22T11:59:09","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T19:59:09","slug":"december-21-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5392","title":{"rendered":"December 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2017 December 21<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>December Solstice &#8211; welcome to winter!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Val George writes:\u00a0 Here is a photo of one of the <strong> Indian Meal Moths<\/strong> <em><strong>Plodia interpunctella<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0that we were discussing.\u00a0 As I mentioned to you, we&#8217;ve had a plague of these guys in our house in Oak Bay for the past several months.\u00a0 I think my daughter brought them in, either as eggs or larvae, in a bag of flour she bought.\u00a0 Fortunately, the one in the photo seems to be one of the last.\u00a0 Today I found a larva in my bird seed which I keep outside the house.\u00a0 Looks like a larval Indian Meal Moth to me.\u00a0 I guess one or more of the adult moths from the house must have got into the birdseed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 They could well have come in with the bag of flour, but in case your daughter pleads not guilty, the Indian Meal Moth is quite common in houses here &#8211; we get them in our apartment building from time to time &#8211; so it is possible that she is quite innocent!\u00a0 I don\u2019t know where the species originally came from, but I don\u2019t think it was necessarily India.\u00a0 The name arises because the caterpillar is supposed to eat Indian Meal (whatever that might be) as well as other stored grains.\u00a0 Also, while I can\u2019t be absolutely 100 percent certain, I agree that the larva from your birdseed is almost certainly that of an Indian Meal Moth.<\/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: 534px; height: 358px;\" title=\"Indian Meal Moth 3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Indian-Meal-Moth-3.jpg\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Indian Meal Moth <em>Plodia interpunctella <\/em>(Lep.: Pyralidae)\u00a0 Val George<\/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=\"Indian Meal Moth 2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Indian-Meal-Moth-2.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"420.18\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Indian Meal Moth <em>Plodia interpunctella <\/em>(Lep.: Pyralidae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 December 21 December Solstice &#8211; welcome to winter! \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Val George writes:\u00a0 Here is a photo of one of the Indian Meal Moths Plodia interpunctella\u00a0that we were discussing.\u00a0 As I mentioned to you, we&#8217;ve had a plague of these guys in our house in Oak Bay for the past several months.\u00a0 I think [&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-5392","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\/5392","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=5392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5396,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5392\/revisions\/5396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}