{"id":10343,"date":"2020-04-16T11:57:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T18:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10343"},"modified":"2020-04-16T18:27:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T01:27:50","slug":"april-16-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10343","title":{"rendered":"April 16 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2020 April 16 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><strong><em>Egira crucialis\/simplex<\/em><\/strong> is a pair of spring &#8220;woodling&#8221; moths that are awfully difficult to distinguish.\u00a0 Below are some recent photographs from Jochen M\u00f6hr in Metchosin and Peter Boon in Nanaimo which have had myself (Jeremy Tatum) and Libby Avis as well as Jochen and Peter working hard at it.\u00a0 The labels I have attached to the photographs below are the &#8220;most probable&#8221; identifications, and perhaps not 100 percent certain.\u00a0 Moth-ers are encouraged to continue to send photographs of these species. \u00a0Maybe eventually we&#8217;ll\u00a0 learn to distinguish them with more confidence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 253px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pastedImage-82.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Egira simplex <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 295px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pastedImage-83.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Egira simplex <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 278px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pastedImage-84.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Egira crucialis <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 429px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pastedImage-85.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Egira crucialis <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Peter Boon<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 555px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image010.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pastedImage-86.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Left\u00a0 <em>Egira crucialis <\/em>(we think!)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Right <em>Egira simplex <\/em>(we think!)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen also reports a <strong>comma<\/strong> from Metchosin yesterday.\u00a0 Alas, the commas are no easier to identify than <em>crucialis<\/em>\/<em>simplex<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 April 16 morning \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Egira crucialis\/simplex is a pair of spring &#8220;woodling&#8221; 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