{"id":5593,"date":"2018-02-26T15:19:59","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T23:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5593"},"modified":"2018-03-02T09:31:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T17:31:39","slug":"february-26-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5593","title":{"rendered":"February 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2018 February 26<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Ian Cruickshank sends a photograph of a nest of young <strong> Silver-spotted Tiger Moth <\/strong>caterpillars overwintering on a Douglas Fir at Rocky Point.\u00a0 Some of these caterpillars may look a little out of sorts, but they are not.\u00a0 When the weather warms up a little, as I am told it will do in a few days, they will have a skin-change (ecdysis) and they will look very healthy in their new attire.<\/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 loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Silverspotted.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Silverspotted.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"447\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Silver-spotted Tiger Moth <em>Lophocampa argentata <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae &#8211; Arctiinae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ian Cruickshank<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 February 26 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cruickshank sends a photograph of a nest of young Silver-spotted Tiger Moth caterpillars overwintering on a Douglas Fir at Rocky Point.\u00a0 Some of these caterpillars may look a little out of sorts, but they are not.\u00a0 When the weather warms up a little, as I am told it will [&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-5593","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\/5593","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=5593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5605,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5593\/revisions\/5605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}