{"id":9159,"date":"2019-08-23T16:08:50","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T23:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=9159"},"modified":"2019-08-23T16:16:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T23:16:43","slug":"august-23-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=9159","title":{"rendered":"August 23"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   <\/strong>Anne Scarfe found this cocoon at her Gordon Head house on August 20.   It is an arctiine cocoon, probably Lophocampa<\/strong><\/em>.  Jeremy Tatum writes:   I’m not sure whether it is a very late L. argentata <\/em>(in which case the moth will emerge soon), or a very early L. maculata <\/em>(in which case the moth will emerge next spring).<\/p>\n

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Lophocampa <\/em>sp. (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)  Ann Scarfe<\/p>\n

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   Scott Gilmore sends a photograph of a caterpillar found in his Lantzville garden.  It is Panthea <\/em><\/strong>sp., <\/strong>a genus whose recognized species or subspecies change from time to time.  This one is perhaps best labeled as Panthea virginarius<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Panthea virginarius <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)  Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n

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Panthea virginarius <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)  Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n

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Panthea virginarius <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)  Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n

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  <\/strong>Aziza Cooper photographed a moth and some bugs near Swan Lake on August 11.  The bugs are pentatomids, but they are nymphs and we have not yet been able to identify them further. <\/p>\n

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Silver-spotted Tiger Moth Lophocampa argentata <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)  Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Pentatomid bug nymphs  <\/span>(Hem.: Pentatomidae)  <\/span>Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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2019 August 23      Anne Scarfe found this cocoon at her Gordon Head house on August 20.   It is an arctiine cocoon, probably Lophocampa.  Jeremy Tatum writes:   I’m not sure whether it is a very late L. argentata (in which case the moth will emerge soon), or a very early L. maculata (in which […]<\/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-9159","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\/9159","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=9159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}