{"id":9395,"date":"2019-09-20T16:34:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T23:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=9395"},"modified":"2019-09-20T16:37:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T23:37:00","slug":"september-20-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=9395","title":{"rendered":"September 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2019 September 20<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Bud Logan sends a photograph of a black woolly bear caterpillar.&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I don&#8217;t know for sure what it is, but I am wondering if it is an all-black individual of the  <strong>Banded Woolly Bear<\/strong>.&nbsp; The width of the central orange band in this species varies, but I&#8217;ve never seen one in which the orange band is totally absent.&nbsp; Anyone care to comment?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"414\" width=\"597.6\" height=\"396.4846153846154\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pastedImage-109.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Maybe <em>Pyrrharctia isabella <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae &#8211; Arctiinae)&nbsp; Bud Logan<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr&#8217;s moths from Metchosin this morning:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"377\" width=\"597.6\" height=\"361.05\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pastedImage-110.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Tetracis pallulata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 590px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"590\" originalheight=\"550\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pastedImage-111.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Xanthorhoe defensaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 428px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"428\" originalheight=\"605\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pastedImage-112.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Pleromelloida cinerea <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen M\u00f6hr    <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 571px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image010.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"571\" originalheight=\"640\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pastedImage-113.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Pleromelloida cinerea <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; The &#8220;Meadow&#8221; bed at the Finnerty Gardens (UVic) at the moment has massive amounts of  <em>Sedum<\/em> and <em>Verbena<\/em> in flower.&nbsp; These are excellent butterfly attractants.&nbsp; At lunchtime today (September 20) there were two fresh-looking  <strong>Painted Ladies <\/strong>nectaring on the <em>Verbena<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 September 20 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Bud Logan sends a photograph of a black woolly bear caterpillar.&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I don&#8217;t know for sure what it is, but I am wondering if it is an all-black individual of the Banded Woolly Bear.&nbsp; The width of the central orange band in this species varies, but I&#8217;ve [&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-9395","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\/9395","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=9395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}