{"id":8336,"date":"2019-06-24T16:24:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T23:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=8336"},"modified":"2019-06-24T16:31:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T23:31:40","slug":"june-24-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=8336","title":{"rendered":"June 24 afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2019 June 24 afternoon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Kem Luther found an interesting caterpillar alongside the Hillman Trail in Metchosin yesterday:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/pastedImage-119.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 It appears to be constructing its cocoon prior to pupation, and is incorporating fragments of bark into the cocoon.\u00a0 There are several caterpillars that do this, for example <em>Behrensia, Furcula, Archiearis.<\/em><em>\u00a0 <\/em>I know it\u2019s neither of the first two, so I was wondering if it might be <em>Archiearis<\/em>, though the caterpillar looks more like a noctuid.\u00a0 Does any viewer have any suggestions?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0 I visited the nature house at Swan Lake today, and there were several insects around the front entrance:\u00a0 <strong>2 <\/strong><strong><em>Zotheca tranquilla, <\/em><\/strong><strong>1 <\/strong> <strong><em>Leucoma salicis<\/em><\/strong><strong>, <\/strong>a final instar caterpillar of <strong><em>Lophocampa argentata<\/em><\/strong><strong>, <\/strong>and the two splendid beasts shown below, kindly photographed by Kalene Lillico.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"\" style=\"width: 456px; margin: 5px;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/pastedImage-120.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Yellow Douglas Fir Borer <em>Centrodera spurca <\/em> (Col.: Cerambycidae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Kalene Lillico<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/pastedImage-121.png\" width=\"597.6\" height=\"474.0576923076923\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Eulithis xylina <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Kalene Lillico<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 June 24 afternoon \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Kem Luther found an interesting caterpillar alongside the Hillman Trail in Metchosin yesterday: &nbsp; \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 It appears to be constructing its cocoon prior to pupation, and is incorporating fragments of bark into the cocoon.\u00a0 There are several caterpillars that do this, for example Behrensia, Furcula, Archiearis.\u00a0 [&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-8336","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\/8336","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=8336"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8341,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8336\/revisions\/8341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}