{"id":5965,"date":"2018-05-01T16:31:17","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T23:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5965"},"modified":"2018-05-01T16:37:38","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T23:37:38","slug":"may-1-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5965","title":{"rendered":"May 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>2018 May 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Cheryl Hoyle sends a photograph of bunch of caterpillars of the  <strong>Sheep Moth <\/strong>from Uplands Park, April 30.&nbsp; These caterpillars may give a mild (or not-so-mild) rash if handled.&nbsp; I couldn&#8217;t think of a suitable collective noun for a bunch of gregarious caterpillars, so I just used &#8220;bunch&#8221;.&nbsp; Suggestions welcome.&nbsp;   Their usual foodplants are either Ocean Spray or Snowberry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" style=\"width:604px; margin:5px\" src=\"\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"Sheep cats.JPG\" width=\"711.2\" height=\"543.8588235294118\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sheep-cats.jpg\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Sheep Moth <em>Hemileuca eglanterina <\/em>(Lep.: Saturniidae)&nbsp; Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Annie Pang sends a photograph of the parasitoidal tachinid fly  <em><strong>Epalpus signifer<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\"><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" style=\"width:624px; margin:5px\" src=\"\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><em><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"P1350486 fly with yellow butt rev.jpg\" width=\"711.2\" height=\"687.6892561983472\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/P1350486-fly-with-yellow-butt-rev.jpg\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><em>Epalpus signifer <\/em>(Dip.: Tachinidae)&nbsp; Annie Pang<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">&nbsp; Gerry and Wendy Ansell write: &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  Today at the top of Mount Douglas we got our first swallowtail of the year &#8211; an <strong>  Anise Swallowtail<\/strong>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Also at the top were&nbsp;two <strong>Sara Orangetips<\/strong> and one  <strong>Western Spring Azure<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">  <\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 May 1 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Cheryl Hoyle sends a photograph of bunch of caterpillars of the Sheep Moth from Uplands Park, April 30.&nbsp; These caterpillars may give a mild (or not-so-mild) rash if handled.&nbsp; I couldn&#8217;t think of a suitable collective noun for a bunch of gregarious caterpillars, so I just used &#8220;bunch&#8221;.&nbsp; Suggestions welcome.&nbsp; [&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-5965","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\/5965","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=5965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}