{"id":7259,"date":"2018-10-19T16:25:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T23:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7259"},"modified":"2018-10-19T16:26:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T23:26:35","slug":"october-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7259","title":{"rendered":"October 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2018 October 19<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; Yesterday I showed a photograph of a lycaenid caterpillar photographed by Nathan Fisk on Beach Knotweed &#8211; a common foodplant of the Purplish Copper.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I cautioned, however, that the caterpillar   more closely resembled that of a Grey Hairstreak.&nbsp;&nbsp; I am now wholly convinced that it is indeed a  <strong>Grey Hairstreak<\/strong>, and I have now labelled it as such.&nbsp; Here is an enlargement of a second photograph by Nathan of the caterpillar.&nbsp;&nbsp; On comparison with my photograph of a Grey Hairstreak caterpillar at&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;facweb.furman.edu\/~snyderjohn\/tatum\/098-101.htm&nbsp;   &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;there can now be little doubt of the identity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 623px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"20181016_125006.jpg\" originalwidth=\"1184\" originalheight=\"863\" width=\"526.4\" height=\"383.6851351351351\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20181016_125006.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Grey Hairstreak <em>Strymon melinus <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Nathan Fisk<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; One <strong>Cabbage White, <\/strong>  Martindale Road, this afternoon.&nbsp; Also a big, brightly-coloured moth flew past me, almost colliding with my head.&nbsp; I believe it was probably a  <strong>Garden Tiger <\/strong><strong><em>Arctia caja<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 October 19 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; Yesterday I showed a photograph of a lycaenid caterpillar photographed by Nathan Fisk on Beach Knotweed &#8211; a common foodplant of the Purplish Copper.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I cautioned, however, that the caterpillar more closely resembled that of a Grey Hairstreak.&nbsp;&nbsp; I am now wholly convinced that it is indeed [&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-7259","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\/7259","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=7259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}