{"id":5560,"date":"2018-02-21T09:07:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T17:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5560"},"modified":"2018-02-21T09:16:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T17:16:27","slug":"february-20-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5560","title":{"rendered":"February 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2019 February 20<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>The photograph below was obtained by Gordon Hart at Royal Bay Beach Park, Metchosin, on February 19.&nbsp; Although we cannot identify the unhappy caterpillar &#8211; other than at family level, Noctuidae &#8211; it serves as a reminder that caterpillars   are to be found at this season, even if it takes the sharp eyes of a pipit to find one.&nbsp; The caterpillar is in its penultimate instar and, before the unfortunate incident, it was planning to undergo ecdysis soon &#8211; as can be seen by the small old head capsule.<\/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;\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"1086\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"AMPI w green cat.jpg\" height=\"539.38\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/AMPI-w-green-cat.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Unidentified caterpillar (Lep.: Noctuidae),&nbsp; and<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">American Pipit <em>Anthus rubescens <\/em>(Pas.: Motacillidae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Gordon Hart  <\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 February 20 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; The photograph below was obtained by Gordon Hart at Royal Bay Beach Park, Metchosin, on February 19.&nbsp; Although we cannot identify the unhappy caterpillar &#8211; other than at family level, Noctuidae &#8211; it serves as a reminder that caterpillars are to be found at this season, even if it takes [&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-5560","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\/5560","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=5560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}