{"id":9186,"date":"2019-08-26T16:34:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T23:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=9186"},"modified":"2019-08-26T16:36:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T23:36:14","slug":"august-26-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=9186","title":{"rendered":"August 26 afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2019 August 26 afternoon<br \/>  <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>A very nice find by Kirsten Mills at McIntyre reservoir last week &#8211; a caterpillar of the  <strong>Bedstraw Hawk Moth <\/strong><strong><em>Hyles gallii<\/em><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;  <\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;I was wondering if one of them might turn up sometime, since there have been three reports of the adult moth on Invertebrate Alert this year.&nbsp;&nbsp; One of the larval foodplants is Bedstraw,&nbsp;  <em>Galium <\/em>sp.&nbsp;&nbsp; An extra letter &#8220;l&#8221; seems to have slipped into the scientific name of the moth.&nbsp; It&nbsp; also feeds on  <em>Epilobium.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"373\" width=\"597.6\" height=\"357.21923076923076\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/pastedImage-154.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Bedstraw Hawk Moth <em>Hyles gallii <\/em>(Lep.: Sphingidae)&nbsp; Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; There were still several <strong>  Ringlets<\/strong> and <strong>Purplish Coppers <\/strong>in the grassy fields inland from Island View Beach today, and of course lots of  <strong>Woodland Skippers <\/strong>and <strong>Cabbage Whites.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 August 26 afternoon &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; A very nice find by Kirsten Mills at McIntyre reservoir last week &#8211; a caterpillar of the Bedstraw Hawk Moth Hyles gallii.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;I was wondering if one of them might turn up sometime, since there have been three reports of the adult moth on Invertebrate Alert this year.&nbsp;&nbsp; One [&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-9186","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\/9186","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=9186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}