{"id":7829,"date":"2019-05-03T16:20:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T23:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7829"},"modified":"2019-05-03T16:26:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T23:26:35","slug":"may-3-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7829","title":{"rendered":"May 3 afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2019 May 3 afternoon<\/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; Not much invertebrate activity this afternoon, though I went to Mount Douglas and saw my first  <strong>Propertius Duskywing<\/strong> of the year, and I also photographed this caterpillar.&nbsp; Be warned, some people (including myself!) find that these  <strong>Sheep Moth<\/strong> caterpillars can give you a rash if they are handled.&nbsp;&nbsp; I note that some writers have taken to calling the moth the &#8220;Elegant Sheep Moth&#8221;, perhaps under the misapprehension that &#8220;eglanterina&#8221; means &#8220;elegant&#8221;.&nbsp; It actually means &#8220;spiny&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; 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=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"447\" width=\"562.4\" height=\"402.87307692307695\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/pastedImage-15.png\">&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sheep Moth <em>Hemileuca eglanterina <\/em>(Lep.: Saturniidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 May 3 afternoon &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; Not much invertebrate activity this afternoon, though I went to Mount Douglas and saw my first Propertius Duskywing of the year, and I also photographed this caterpillar.&nbsp; Be warned, some people (including myself!) find that these Sheep Moth caterpillars can give you a rash if they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7829","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\/7829","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=7829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}