{"id":6257,"date":"2018-05-29T19:11:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T02:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6257"},"modified":"2019-02-26T10:18:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T18:18:39","slug":"may-29-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6257","title":{"rendered":"May 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2018 May 29<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Most pug caterpillars feed on fltowers.\u00a0 Here is one in the flower head of the dogwood <em>Cornus stolonifera.\u00a0 <\/em>The adult moth ecloded (emerged) on June 13 (see posting of that date) and enabled Libby Avis to identify it as <em><strong>Eupithecia misturata<\/strong><\/em>.<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\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;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/pastedImage-1.png\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"397.66999999999996\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Pug caterpillar <em>Eupithecia\u00a0<\/em><em>misturata<\/em> (Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy writes:\u00a0 This beautiful <strong> Western Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong> was photographed at Loon Bay, May 28th, while the tide was out. It appeared to be\u00a0ingesting the salt water between the rocks on the mud-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;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"WETISW.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/WETISW.jpg\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"400.13999999999993\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Western Tiger Swallowtail <em>Papilio rutulus <\/em> (Lep.: Papilionidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0 Yesterday, May 28, around 6:15 p.m. in the wind there was a <strong>West Coast Lady<\/strong> alongside the road on Mount Tolmie.\u00a0 It was not too far from the concrete reservoir.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 May 29 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Most pug caterpillars feed on fltowers.\u00a0 Here is one in the flower head of the dogwood Cornus stolonifera.\u00a0 The adult moth ecloded (emerged) on June 13 (see posting of that date) and enabled Libby Avis to identify it as Eupithecia misturata. Pug caterpillar Eupithecia\u00a0misturata (Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy [&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-6257","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\/6257","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=6257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7486,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6257\/revisions\/7486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}