{"id":6088,"date":"2018-05-17T09:35:27","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T16:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6088"},"modified":"2018-05-27T15:20:07","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T22:20:07","slug":"may-17-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6088","title":{"rendered":"May 17 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2018 May 17 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Thomas Barbin writes:\u00a0 Yesterday at John Dean Park there were:<br \/>\n<strong>15 Western Spring Azures<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>7 Western Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>1 Propertius Duskywing<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>1 Cabbage White<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>But, writes Jeremy Tatum, this is a caterpillar morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">First I find that I had mislabelled a caterpillar on May 13.\u00a0 I had wrongly labelled it <em>Orthosia hibisci<\/em>.\u00a0 However, the caterpillar has since grown into its final instar (photograph below), and, though it is very similar to <em>hibisci, <\/em>I can now see that it is in fact <em><strong>Aseptis binotata<\/strong><\/em><strong>.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I have a feeling that it might not be well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"binotata.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/binotata.jpg\" width=\"711.2\" height=\"433.832\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Aseptis binotata <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae) Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Next is <strong><em>Ipimorpha nanaimo<\/em><\/strong> from a cottonwood tree at Panama Flats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Ipimorpha.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Ipimorpha.jpg\" width=\"711.2\" height=\"430.276\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Ipimorpha nanaimo <\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0 And now, I\u2019m afraid, three unidentified caterpillars, respectively from oak, pear and willow.\u00a0 I\u2019ll make wild, wild guesses at what they might be \u2013 perhaps <em>Hydriomena nubilofasciata, Hedya nubiferana <\/em>\u00a0and <em>Choristoneura rosaceana<\/em>. \u00a0They\u2019re probably all wrong \u2013 time will tell, when the moths finally eclode. (From the Latin claudere, just as explode is from plaudere.\u00a0 The nouns are eclosion and explosion; the verbs are eclode and explode.\u00a0 Entomologists please note.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 430px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 477px;\" title=\"nubilo maybe.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/nubilo-maybe.jpg\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Unidentified (Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 518px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 499px;\" title=\"Pear.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Pear.jpg\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Hedya nubiferana\u00a0<\/em>(confirmed) (Lep.: Tortricidae)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 485px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image010.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 509px;\" title=\"micro willow.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/micro-willow.jpg\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Unidentified (Lep.: Tortricidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 May 17 morning \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Thomas Barbin writes:\u00a0 Yesterday at John Dean Park there were: 15 Western Spring Azures 7 Western Tiger Swallowtails 1 Propertius Duskywing 1 Cabbage White \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 But, writes Jeremy Tatum, this is a caterpillar morning. First I find that I had mislabelled a caterpillar on May 13.\u00a0 I had [&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-6088","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\/6088","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=6088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6236,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088\/revisions\/6236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}