{"id":9353,"date":"2019-09-18T11:30:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T18:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=9353"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:57:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T23:57:35","slug":"september-18-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=9353","title":{"rendered":"September 18 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Kirsten Mills writes: On September 16, I was a caterpillar that looked like the hawk moth caterpillar last month. It was seen at the south end of Island View Beach.<\/p>\n

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Well, replies Jeremy Tatum, I hope Kirsten means that she \u201csaw\u201d a caterpillar rather than that she \u201cwas\u201d one.\u00a0 In any case, what a spectacular caterpillar it is!\u00a0 It is indeed the same species as the one she showed on August 26, from nearby McIntyre Reservoir \u2013 a Bedstraw Hawk Moth.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I am beginning to lose count, but I think this is the sixth report of this species to Invert Alert this year \u2013 four adults, and two caterpillars, the latter both found by Kirsten.\u00a0 Today\u2019s caterpillar is a very different colour variety from the one Kirsten photographed on August 26 , so she did well to recognize that today\u2019s is the same species.\u00a0 Here they are both, first, the one Kirsten found in August:<\/p>\n

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Bedstraw Hawk Moth Hyles gallii <\/em>(Lep.: Sphingidae) Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n

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and now the one she found on September 16:<\/p>\n

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Bedstraw Hawk Moth Hyles gallii <\/em>(Lep.: Sphingidae) Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Although these individuals look very different, both have a red \u201chorn\u201d \u2013 I believe this is constant in all colour varieties of the caterpillar.\u00a0 So far this year, we have received one photograph of an adult Hyles lineata, <\/em>but we haven\u2019t yet had one of a caterpillar. Its caterpillar always has a yellow horn.<\/p>\n

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Kirsten also sends a photograph of a Neoalcis californiaria <\/em> <\/strong>from near Hillside Mall:<\/p>\n

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Neoalcis californiaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n

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Franci Holtsander. from Nanaimo, sends a photograph of a caterpillar of the Spotted Tiger Moth, <\/strong>and also the snail Cepaea nemoralis<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>The shell looks just right for this species, although the animal itself is usually rather paler than this specimen.<\/p>\n

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Spotted Tiger Moth Lophocampa maculata <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae- Arctiinae)<\/p>\n

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Cepaea nemoralis <\/em>(Pul.: Helicidae)\u00a0 Franci Holtsander<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum sends a photograph of Cucullia montanae<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 You can see the \u201chood\u201d over its head, from which it gets its name Cucullia<\/em>, from \u201ccucullus\u201d, a hood.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know where it gets its name \u201cmontanae<\/em>\u201d from, since I usually find this species on Gumweed on the beach down at sea level.<\/p>\n

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Cucullia montanae <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae) Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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More this afternoon or evening…<\/p>\n

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2019 September 18 morning \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Kirsten Mills writes: On September 16, I was a caterpillar that looked like the hawk moth caterpillar last month. It was seen at the south end of Island View Beach.   Well, replies Jeremy Tatum, I hope Kirsten means that she \u201csaw\u201d a caterpillar rather than that she \u201cwas\u201d […]<\/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-9353","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\/9353","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=9353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9367,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9353\/revisions\/9367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}