{"id":5417,"date":"2018-01-05T13:58:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T21:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5417"},"modified":"2018-01-05T14:11:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T22:11:20","slug":"january-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5417","title":{"rendered":"January 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2015 January 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Not many caterpillars around at the moment, but it&#8217;s not quite zero, for Morgan Davies sent a photograph of one on Sidney Island yesterday.&nbsp;&nbsp; Not sure if we are going to be able to identify it to species, but it is surely either a noctuid   or an erebid.<\/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\" hasheight=\"true\" setwidth=\"546\" setheight=\"671\" style=\"width: 546px; height: 671px;\" originalheight=\"1200\" originalwidth=\"976\" name=\"\" title=\"cutworm.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/cutworm.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Unknown caterpillar&nbsp; (Lep.: Noctuidae or Erebidae) Morgan Davies<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Scott Gilmore writes:&nbsp; There was an interesting phenomenon noticed in Lantzville on January 3. There were huge numbers of very small worms found wriggling on what was left of our snow. I found out about it and quickly went to look in my backyard late   last night. There were worms everywhere and they were all between 2 and 5cm long.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum remarks:&nbsp; To my eyes these don&#8217;t look like the usual European <em>  Lumbricus<\/em> species that we are used to.&nbsp; Perhaps it is one of our native species.&nbsp; Is there a viewer out there who can help us?<\/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_image004.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"834\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"earthworm1.JPG\" height=\"473.15599999999995\" width=\"680.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/earthworm1.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Unknown worm&nbsp;&nbsp; Scott Gilmore<\/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_image006.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"900\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"earthworm2.JPG\" height=\"510.5999999999999\" width=\"680.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/earthworm2.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Unknown worm&nbsp;&nbsp; Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/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=\"1119\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"earthworm3.JPG\" height=\"634.8459999999999\" width=\"680.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/earthworm3.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Unknown worm&nbsp;&nbsp; Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 January 5 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Not many caterpillars around at the moment, but it&#8217;s not quite zero, for Morgan Davies sent a photograph of one on Sidney Island yesterday.&nbsp;&nbsp; Not sure if we are going to be able to identify it to species, but it is surely either a noctuid or an erebid. &nbsp; Unknown [&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-5417","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\/5417","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=5417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}