{"id":12147,"date":"2020-09-07T09:06:49","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T16:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12147"},"modified":"2020-09-07T09:07:12","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T16:07:12","slug":"september-7-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12147","title":{"rendered":"September 7 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2020 September 7 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Gordon Hart writes:&nbsp; Last night, (Saturday &nbsp;September 5), I turned on the porch lights for a couple of hours, and I saw 5  <strong><em>Neoalcis californiaria,<\/em><\/strong> 6 or 8 small moths (crambid snout moths and tortricid moths I think ) and one larger geometrid,&nbsp;<strong><em>Nepytia phantasmaria<\/em><\/strong>. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum remarks: &nbsp;The only previous photograph of this species from the Victoria area on Invertebrate Alert since it started in 2010 was one &#8211; also by Gordon at his home &#8211; on 2014 September 23, although Libby photographed several   in Port Alberni in 2017.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 617px; 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=\"617\" originalheight=\"408\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pastedImage-20.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Nepytia phantasmaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I was thinking of limiting the number of photographs of  <strong><em>Neoalcis californiaria<\/em><\/strong><em> <\/em>&#8211; one of our most frequently photographed insects &#8211; when the first moth to appear for weeks at my apartment back door arrived, and of course it had to be  <em>N. californiaria<\/em>, and I couldn&#8217;t resist the temptation of photographing it.&nbsp; So much for my attempt at placing a limit!&nbsp; It seems to be one of our very commonest moths.<\/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=\"388\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pastedImage-21.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Neoalcis californiaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 September 7 morning &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Gordon Hart writes:&nbsp; Last night, (Saturday &nbsp;September 5), I turned on the porch lights for a couple of hours, and I saw 5 Neoalcis californiaria, 6 or 8 small moths (crambid snout moths and tortricid moths I think ) and one larger geometrid,&nbsp;Nepytia phantasmaria. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum [&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-12147","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\/12147","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=12147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}