{"id":14698,"date":"2021-08-04T11:10:42","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T18:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14698"},"modified":"2021-08-04T11:18:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T18:18:52","slug":"2021-august-4-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14698","title":{"rendered":"2021 August 4 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 August 4 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jochen M&ouml;hr writes from Metchosin:&nbsp; This morning one lonely moth,&nbsp; [Shown below]&nbsp; Libby Avis writes:&nbsp; <strong><em>Mesapamea secalis<\/em><\/strong>. Introduced species from a few years ago, now becoming increasingly common. Extremely variable in markings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/P1660560.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"494\" height=\"626\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Mesapamea sicalis <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp; Jochen M&ouml;hr<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp;&nbsp; This morning I visited the Nature Houses at Goldstream Park and at Swan Lake.&nbsp; At Goldstream, I found this moth:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_4038.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"543\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Sabulodes aegrotata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; At Swan Lake I found these two.&nbsp; The first is the colour form of <em>Coryphista meadii<\/em>&nbsp; that is <strong><u>not<\/u><\/strong> difficult to distinguish from <em>Triphosa haesitata<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_4040.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"633\" height=\"417\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Coryphists meadii <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_4041.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"471\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Leucania <\/em>sp.(probably <em>farcta <\/em>or <em>oregona<\/em>) (Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 August 4 morning &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jochen M&ouml;hr writes from Metchosin:&nbsp; This morning one lonely moth,&nbsp; [Shown below]&nbsp; Libby Avis writes:&nbsp; Mesapamea secalis. Introduced species from a few years ago, now becoming increasingly common. Extremely variable in markings. &nbsp; Mesapamea sicalis (Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp; Jochen M&ouml;hr &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp;&nbsp; This morning I visited the Nature Houses [&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-14698","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\/14698","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=14698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}