{"id":725,"date":"2014-03-27T10:35:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T15:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=725"},"modified":"2014-04-02T11:24:44","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T16:24:44","slug":"tropical-black-witch-found-in-churchill-manitoba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/tropical-black-witch-found-in-churchill-manitoba\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical \u201cBlack Witch\u201d found in Churchill, Manitoba<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_727\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/BlackWitchB-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-727\" class=\"size-full wp-image-727\" alt=\"This Black Witch moth was found in Churchill, Manitoba, the furthest north the species has ever been documented. (Credit: Torbjorn Ekrem)\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/BlackWitchB-2.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/BlackWitchB-2.jpg 400w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/BlackWitchB-2-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-727\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This Black Witch moth was found in Churchill, Manitoba, the furthest north the species has ever been documented. (Credit: Torbjorn Ekrem, <a href=\"http:\/\/canadianfieldnaturalist.ca\/index.php\/cfn\/article\/view\/1554\/1572\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian Field Naturalist<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In Mexican folklore, the moth known as the Black Witch (Ascalapha odorata) is a bad omen, a harbinger of death. The species is normally found in tropical regions, but does occasionally come to southern Canada during the summer.\u00a0A new paper documents a sighting of this species in Churchill, Manitoba, the furthest north it has ever been found.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/canadianfieldnaturalist.ca\/index.php\/cfn\/article\/view\/1554\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the\u00a0journal\u00a0<em>Canadian Field-Naturalist<\/em>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>March 27, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected<\/strong><strong>\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uoguelph.ca\/ib\/people\/faculty\/hebert.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Hebert<\/a>, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, University of Guelph<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Mexican folklore, the moth known as the Black Witch (Ascalapha odorata) is a bad omen, a harbinger of death. The species is normally found in tropical regions, but does occasionally come to southern Canada during the summer.\u00a0A new paper documents a sighting of this species in Churchill, Manitoba, the furthest north it has ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[39,31,215,847,50],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animal-behaviour","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-manitoba-en","tag-ontario"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/BlackWitchB-2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-bH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions\/793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}