{"id":7476,"date":"2019-02-22T14:41:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T22:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7476"},"modified":"2019-03-05T10:32:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T18:32:35","slug":"february-22-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7476","title":{"rendered":"February 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2019 February 22<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Libby Avis writes:\u00a0 Well, it&#8217;s been a long time without anything to report; however, yesterday (February 21st) we were at the Englishman River estuary and came across a mass of <strong><em>Lophocampa argentata<\/em><\/strong> caterpillars on Douglas Fir. Still snow on the ground, but they were pretty active.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 402px; 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=\"Englishman River Estuary_MG_9356ab.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Englishman-River-Estuary_MG_9356ab.jpg\" width=\"570.4\" height=\"815.6719999999999\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Silver-spotted Tiger Moth <em>Lophocampa argentata <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Arctiinae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Libby Avis<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 614px; 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=\"Englishman River Estuary_MG_9359ab.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Englishman-River-Estuary_MG_9359ab.jpg\" width=\"570.4\" height=\"399.28\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Silver-spotted Tiger Moth <em>Lophocampa argentata <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Arctiinae) Libby Avis<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I have not been so lucky.\u00a0 As this wintry weather continues, I am still having to<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">scour the indoors looking for commensals.\u00a0 Here is today\u2019s haul \u2013 a <strong>web-spinning clothes moth:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 542px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Tineola.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Tineola.jpg\" width=\"570.4\" height=\"601.772\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Tineola bisselliella <\/em>(Lep.: Tineidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 February 22 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Libby Avis writes:\u00a0 Well, it&#8217;s been a long time without anything to report; however, yesterday (February 21st) we were at the Englishman River estuary and came across a mass of Lophocampa argentata caterpillars on Douglas Fir. Still snow on the ground, but they were pretty active. 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