{"id":15196,"date":"2021-11-28T17:09:23","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T01:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15196"},"modified":"2021-11-28T17:18:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T01:18:51","slug":"2021-november-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15196","title":{"rendered":"2021 November 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 November 28<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>On November 26 Val George took photographs of several <strong>&nbsp;winter moths <em>Operophtera <\/em>sp.<\/strong> at Goldstream Park, where three species occur, in the hope of possibly finding <em>O. occidentalis<\/em>.&nbsp; I agree with Val, writes Jeremy Tatum, that probably all of the ones photographed are <em>O. brumata<\/em>, although the first two might marginally just be <em>O. occidentalis. <\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;Just to be safe, I&rsquo;ll label these two &ldquo;sp.&rdquo;<\/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\/11\/O.-brumata-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"489\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Operophtera <\/em>sp. (Lep.: &nbsp;Geometridae)&nbsp; Val George<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/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\/11\/O.-brumata-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"669\" height=\"480\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Operophtera <\/em>sp. (Lep.: &nbsp;Geometridae)&nbsp; Val George<\/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\/11\/O.-brumata-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"457\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Operophtera<\/em> <em>brumata<\/em> (Lep.: &nbsp;Geometridae)&nbsp; Val George<\/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\/11\/O.-brumata-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"669\" height=\"457\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Operophtera<\/em> <em>brumata<\/em> (Lep.: &nbsp;Geometridae)&nbsp; Val George<\/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\/11\/O.-brumata-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"692\" height=\"481\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Operophtera<\/em> <em>brumata<\/em> (Lep.: &nbsp;Geometridae)&nbsp; Val George<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;Val also photographed there a noctuid moth, identified for us by Libby Avis as <strong><em>Sunira decipiens<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Moth-Qu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"469\" \/><\/em><em>Sunira decipiens <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp; Val George<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 November 28 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;On November 26 Val George took photographs of several &nbsp;winter moths Operophtera sp. at Goldstream Park, where three species occur, in the hope of possibly finding O. occidentalis.&nbsp; I agree with Val, writes Jeremy Tatum, that probably all of the ones photographed are O. brumata, although the first two might marginally [&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-15196","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\/15196","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=15196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}