{"id":15226,"date":"2021-12-07T16:01:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T00:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15226"},"modified":"2021-12-07T16:08:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T00:08:01","slug":"2021-december-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15226","title":{"rendered":"2021 December 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 December 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>There are quite a few moths that spend the winter in the adult state, but most are asleep somewhere and not active.&nbsp; Among the active macros we are pretty-well restricted at this time of year to <em>Operophtera <\/em>and <em>Erannis<\/em> &ndash; though I dare say here are a few others that I haven&rsquo;t thought of.&nbsp; Here is the underside of <em>Operophtera <\/em>(most likely <em>brumata<\/em>) photographed yesterday by Jochen M&ouml;hr in Metchosin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/P1670315.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"572\" height=\"572\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Winter Moth<em> Operophtera <\/em>(probably <em>brumata<\/em>) (Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Jochen M&ouml;hr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Two other species of <em>Operophtera<\/em> can sometimes be found in December at the Goldstream Park Nature House.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 December 7 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; There are quite a few moths that spend the winter in the adult state, but most are asleep somewhere and not active.&nbsp; Among the active macros we are pretty-well restricted at this time of year to Operophtera and Erannis &ndash; though I dare say here are a few others that I [&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-15226","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\/15226","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=15226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}