{"id":14991,"date":"2021-09-24T17:06:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T00:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14991"},"modified":"2021-09-24T17:16:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T00:16:50","slug":"2021-september-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14991","title":{"rendered":"2021 September 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 September 24<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jochen M&ouml;hr sends a photograph of a<strong> <em>Catocala <\/em><\/strong>from Metchosin this morning.<strong>&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes: It is a pity that the several species of these large and spectaular moths are so difficult to distinguish from each other, even with a fresh specimen, and even when the striking hindwing pattern can be seen.&nbsp; The one with the most conspicuous white spot in the middle of the forewing usually turns out to be our default species <strong><em>C. aholibah<\/em><\/strong>, and there are some other features that lead me to think that Jochen&rsquo;s moth is probably that species.&nbsp; &nbsp;However, perhaps it is safest to leave it as <strong><em>Catocala <\/em>sp.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Catocala-semirelicta-P1670134-crop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"487\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Catocala <\/em>sp.&nbsp; (Lep,: Erebidae &ndash; Erebinae)&nbsp; Jochen M&ouml;hr<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 September 24 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jochen M&ouml;hr sends a photograph of a Catocala from Metchosin this morning.&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes: It is a pity that the several species of these large and spectaular moths are so difficult to distinguish from each other, even with a fresh specimen, and even when the striking hindwing pattern can be [&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-14991","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\/14991","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=14991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}