{"id":10015,"date":"2020-02-27T16:07:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T00:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10015"},"modified":"2020-02-27T16:18:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T00:18:16","slug":"february-27-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10015","title":{"rendered":"February 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2020 February 27<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jochen M\u00f6hr sends several pictures of moths from his Metchosin home yesterday and today, a few of which are shown here.&nbsp; The  <strong><em>Egira hiemalis <\/em><\/strong>and <strong><em>Phigalia plumogeraria<\/em><\/strong><strong>  <\/strong>are relatively easy, but Jochen has us all (Jochen, Libby Avis and myself, Jeremy Tatum) working hard over the pugs (<em>Eupithecia)<\/em> and highflyers (<em>Hydriomena<\/em>).&nbsp; The two possible pugs are  <em>Eupithecia annulata <\/em>and <em>E. olivacea<\/em>, and I don&#8217;t think any of us is willing or able to say with 100 percent certainty which they are, so I&#8217;ll label them either\/or.&nbsp; The typical early highflyer is  <em>Hydriomena nubilofasciata<\/em>, and some of these have indeed appeared recently.&nbsp; But some of Jochen&#8217;s recent highflyers are  <em>H. manzanita.<\/em><em>&nbsp; <\/em><em>H. manzanita <\/em>usually doesn&#8217;t appear quite so early in the year, and they are usually rather grey and without much colour. &nbsp;Yet some of Jochen&#8217;s highflyers have appeared deceptively colouful &#8211; but the details of the   patterns together with the characteristic wing-shape, or way of holding their wings, have shown that they are  <strong><em>H. manzanita<\/em><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><strong>&nbsp; <\/strong>The caterpillars of  <em>H. nubilofasciata <\/em>feed on Garry Oak, and the caterpillars of <em>H.manzanita<\/em> feed on Arbutus and &#8211; unsurprisingly! &#8211; on Manzanita.<\/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;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"267\" width=\"492\" height=\"210.51923076923077\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/pastedImage-20.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Eupithecia annulata\/olivacea <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&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=\"342\" width=\"492\" height=\"269.65384615384613\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/pastedImage-21.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Eupithecia annulata\/olivacea <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 431px; 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=\"431\" originalheight=\"514\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/pastedImage-22.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Hydriomena manzanita <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen M\u00f6hr  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"395\" originalheight=\"501\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/pastedImage-23.png\">  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Hydriomena manzanita <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen M\u00f6hr  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&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_image010.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"516\" width=\"492\" height=\"406.8461538461538\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/pastedImage-24.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Phigalia plumogeraria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;   <\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 476px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image012.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"476\" originalheight=\"540\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/pastedImage-25.png\">&nbsp;<em><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Egira hiemalis <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 February 27 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr sends several pictures of moths from his Metchosin home yesterday and today, a few of which are shown here.&nbsp; The Egira hiemalis and Phigalia plumogeraria are relatively easy, but Jochen has us all (Jochen, Libby Avis and myself, Jeremy Tatum) working hard over the pugs (Eupithecia) and highflyers [&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-10015","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\/10015","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=10015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}