{"id":12872,"date":"2020-12-01T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12872"},"modified":"2020-12-01T16:06:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T00:06:23","slug":"december-1-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12872","title":{"rendered":"December 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2020 December 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jochen M\u00f6hr sends a photograph, from Metchosin this morning, of an  <em>Operophtera <\/em>suspected to be <strong><em>O.<\/em><\/strong><em> <\/em><em><strong>occidentalis<\/strong><\/em>.&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I agree, I think this is very probably  <em>occidentalis<\/em>. The middle terminal cell is only slightly &#8211; but nevertheless distinctly &#8211; darker than the adjacent cells, and I believe that this marks it as  <em>occidentalis. <\/em>I dare to label it such without a &#8220;probable&#8221; qualifier!&nbsp; Keep a look-out for winter moths with this darker cell!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;<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;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"521\" width=\"513.6\" height=\"428.82307692307694\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/pastedImage.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Western Winter Moth <em>Operophtera occidentalis <\/em>  (Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 December 1 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr sends a photograph, from Metchosin this morning, of an Operophtera suspected to be O. occidentalis.&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I agree, I think this is very probably occidentalis. The middle terminal cell is only slightly &#8211; but nevertheless distinctly &#8211; darker than the adjacent cells, and I believe that [&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-12872","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\/12872","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=12872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}