{"id":7235,"date":"2018-10-11T16:12:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T23:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7235"},"modified":"2018-10-20T15:25:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T22:25:43","slug":"october-11-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7235","title":{"rendered":"October 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2018 October 11<\/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 This is the second time this season that I have found this bug on my bed \u2013 but I swear to you it is not a Bed Bug. It is a <strong>Western Conifer Seed Bug<\/strong>.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know why it likes my bed \u2013 I have no conifer seeds to offer it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 431px; 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\" style=\"width: 443px;\" title=\"Conifer Seed Bug.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Conifer-Seed-Bug.jpg\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Western Conifer Seed Bug <em>Leptoglossus occidentalis <\/em>(Hem.: Coreidae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Here is the cocoon of a <strong>Polyphemus Moth<\/strong>:<\/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=\"Polyphemus cocoon.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Polyphemus-cocoon.jpg\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"476.7099999999999\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Polyphemus Moth <em>Antheraea polyphemus<\/em><em>\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Saturniidae)\u00a0 \u00a0Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>Banded Woolly Bears <\/strong> are showing up now.\u00a0\u00a0 Here is one photographed by Sonia Voicescu this afternoon on the Lochside Trail next to Michell&#8217;s Farm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 625px; 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\" title=\"20181011_132230.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20181011_132230.jpg\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"499.83136593591905\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Banded Woolly Bear <em>Pyrrharctia isabella <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Arctiinae)\u00a0 Sonia Voicescu<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Libby Avis writes from Port Alberni:\u00a0 Things are starting to wind down here. So far this week, a\u00a0couple\u00a0of <strong><em>Ceranemota, Tetracis jubararia, Ennomos magnaria, Philedia punctomacularia, Sunira decipiens, Agrotis ipsilon, Pleromelloida cinerea <\/em><\/strong>and <strong><em>Lithophane innominata. Autographa californica<\/em><\/strong> still around in the garden. Definitely well into the fall species!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Hart writes:\u00a0 Yesterday at Swan Lake, while I was watching Yellow-rumped Warblers eating Red Osier Dogwood berries, a fresh <strong>Red Admiral<\/strong> flew\u00a0by landing on some brambles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 592px; 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\" title=\"Red Admiral_.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Red-Admiral_.jpg\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"386.80199999999996\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Red Admiral <em>Vanessa atalanta <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 October 11 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 This is the second time this season that I have found this bug on my bed \u2013 but I swear to you it is not a Bed Bug. It is a Western Conifer Seed Bug.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know why it likes my bed \u2013 I have no [&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-7235","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\/7235","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=7235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7262,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7235\/revisions\/7262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}