{"id":6630,"date":"2018-07-14T19:14:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T02:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6630"},"modified":"2018-07-15T09:10:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T16:10:11","slug":"july-14-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6630","title":{"rendered":"July 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>July 14<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Val George writes:\u00a0 This morning, July 14, the VNHS birding group found this <strong>Sheep Moth<\/strong> caterpillar, <strong><em>Hemileuca eglanterina<\/em><\/strong>, in Uplands Park in Oak Bay.\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum remarks:\u00a0 This caterpillar should be handled (if at all) with care.\u00a0 Some people (including myself) find that the caterpillar may give them a rash.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 589px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Sheep Moth 4.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Sheep-Moth-4.jpg\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"389.76599999999996\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sheep Moth <em>Hemileuca eglanterina <\/em>(Lep.: Saturniidae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Mike Yip writes from Nanoose Bay:\u00a0 A bunch of these slimy looking larvae have been defoliating my wife&#8217;s quince tree. They are about 8 &#8211; 9 mm and haven&#8217;t bothered any of the apple or pear trees. Any idea what they are?\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum replies: They are the larvae of a sawfly <em><strong>Eriocampoides<\/strong> <strong>limacina, <\/strong><\/em>also known as <em><strong>Caliroa<\/strong><strong> cerasi<\/strong>.<\/em>\u00a0 They are often to be found on cherry trees.\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t altogether trust them with apple or pear. \u00a0\u201cLimacina\u201d means \u201cslug-lke\u201d.\u00a0 &#8220;Cerasi&#8221; means &#8220;of the cherry&#8221;.<\/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=\"180713quince-034.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/180713quince-034.jpg\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"395.2\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Caliroa cerasi <\/em>(<em>Eriocampoides<\/em> <em>limacina<\/em>)(Hym.: Tenthredinidae)\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I saw two <strong>Pine Whites<\/strong> at the top of a Douglas Fir south of Beaver Lake this afternoon.\u00a0 This evening there was but a single <strong>Painted Lady<\/strong> at the top of Mount Tolmie.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 14 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Val George writes:\u00a0 This morning, July 14, the VNHS birding group found this Sheep Moth caterpillar, Hemileuca eglanterina, in Uplands Park in Oak Bay.\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum remarks:\u00a0 This caterpillar should be handled (if at all) with care.\u00a0 Some people (including myself) find that the caterpillar may give them a rash. Sheep [&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-6630","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\/6630","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=6630"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6634,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6630\/revisions\/6634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}