{"id":13733,"date":"2021-04-10T09:36:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T16:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13733"},"modified":"2021-04-10T09:36:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T16:36:40","slug":"april-10-morning-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13733","title":{"rendered":"April 10 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 April 10 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Bruce Whittington sends a photograph of a moth from his Ladysmith garden, April 4.&nbsp; It shows mostly underside with just a tantalizing glimpse of the upperside, and hence a challenge to identify.&nbsp; Libby Avis rose up to the challenge and   suggests <strong><em>Hydriomena manzanita<\/em><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;  <\/strong>She also says that she had six of them in Port Alberni last night and nothing else.&nbsp; She says she can&#8217;t be absolutely sure of the identification, but, writes Jeremy Tatum, I believe it is very, very probably correct.<\/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;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"441\" width=\"598.4\" height=\"422.9076923076923\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/pastedImage-53.png\">    <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Probably (very probably indeed!) <em>Hydriomena manzanita  <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Bruce Whittington<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Gordon Hart writes from Highlands District that Thursday, April 8 was windy and cool, but sunny, and a  <strong>Mourning Cloak<\/strong> was enjoying the<em> Pieris<\/em> flowers along with many bumblebees.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 567px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"567\" originalheight=\"422\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/pastedImage-54.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mourning Cloak <em>Nymphalis antiopa <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 April 10 morning &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Bruce Whittington sends a photograph of a moth from his Ladysmith garden, April 4.&nbsp; It shows mostly underside with just a tantalizing glimpse of the upperside, and hence a challenge to identify.&nbsp; Libby Avis rose up to the challenge and suggests Hydriomena manzanita.&nbsp; She also says that she had [&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-13733","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\/13733","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=13733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}