{"id":787,"date":"2015-07-02T03:02:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T10:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=787"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:38:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:38:04","slug":"july-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=787","title":{"rendered":"July 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><html> <head> <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=iso-8859-1\"> <\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" style=\"display:none\"><!--P{margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} --><\/style>\n<p> <\/head> <body dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-size:12pt;color:#000000;background-color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"> <\/p>\n<p><strong>2015 July 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Gordon Hart writes: The other day I saw a large orange fly-by while doing a butterfly count, but I think the mystery was solved today when I saw a Robin carrying a large orange and black moth. It is a Sheep Moth, <em>Hemileuca eglanterina.<\/em><em>&nbsp; <\/em><\/p>\n<p> <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"767\" originalwidth=\"1024\" name=\"\" title=\"Robin with Sheep Moth , Hemileuca eglanterina.jpg\" height=\"441.025\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image5594a9d88b641.jpeg\"><\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\"><em>Turdus migratorius <\/em>(Pas.: Turdidae) and <em>Hemileuca eglanterina <\/em>(Lep.: Saturniidae) <\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Gordon also writes that he had a <strong>Grey Hairstreak <\/strong>in his Highlands garden today, and a <strong>Painted Lady<\/strong> there yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; Today, while looking for the Red-eyed Vireo at Blenkinsop Lake, I found a most remarkable geometrid moth, <strong><em>Nematocampa resistaria<\/em><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><strong>&nbsp; <\/strong> It kept very still, because it knew that I didn&#8217;t have a camera with me. (If I had, it would have moved, as all photographers know.) It had remarkable funny-shaped constrasty patches of dark and light on it, being a nice example of disruptive coloration.&nbsp; These  contrasty patches disguise its shape so that Red-eyed Vireos wouldn&#8217;t recognize it as being a moth.&nbsp; If the adult <em>Nematocampa resistaria<\/em> is remarkable in its appearance, its caterpillar is even more so.&nbsp; One was shown on this site on June 25, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Also today I saw a fresh <strong>Red Admiral<\/strong> in Uplands Park.&nbsp; All the same I am not sure that my prediction of a good crop of Red Admirals this summer is going to happen &#8211; many of the nettle patches in the area have been cut down by municipal  crews in the last few days.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/body> <\/html> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 July 1 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Gordon Hart writes: The other day I saw a large orange fly-by while doing a butterfly count, but I think the mystery was solved today when I saw a Robin carrying a large orange and black moth. It is a Sheep Moth, Hemileuca eglanterina.&nbsp; &nbsp; Turdus migratorius (Pas.: Turdidae) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","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=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1676,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions\/1676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}