{"id":21991,"date":"2017-07-06T18:56:31","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T18:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=21991"},"modified":"2017-07-06T18:56:31","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T18:56:31","slug":"lifestyle-biology-a-twin-spotted-sphinx-moth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/lifestyle-biology-a-twin-spotted-sphinx-moth\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifestyle, biology:  A twin-spotted sphinx moth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>I find that being outside in the summertime leads to constant self-tutoring.  The tutor shares a find from the siding this morning:  a twin-spotted sphinx moth (<em>Smerinthus jamaicensis<\/em>)<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/..\/images\/moth_300.jpg\" style=\"display:block;margin:auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember seeing one of these.  A quick internet search yielded what I believe is a match.  Indeed, <em>Smerinthus jamaicensis<\/em> is meant to live in southern BC: I think that&#8217;s what this handsome moth is.  (I didn&#8217;t disturb it; it seems to be fine with the paparazzi:)<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/3707\">bugguide.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find that being outside in the summertime leads to constant self-tutoring. The tutor shares a find from the siding this morning: a twin-spotted sphinx moth (Smerinthus jamaicensis) I don&#8217;t remember seeing one of these. A quick internet search yielded &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/lifestyle-biology-a-twin-spotted-sphinx-moth\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lifestyle, biology:  A twin-spotted sphinx moth?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,181],"tags":[2394],"class_list":["post-21991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-lifestyle","tag-twin-spotted-sphinx-moth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21991"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22000,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21991\/revisions\/22000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}