{"id":15300,"date":"2022-01-22T17:17:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T01:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15300"},"modified":"2022-01-22T17:17:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T01:17:30","slug":"2022-january-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15300","title":{"rendered":"2022 January 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2022 January 22<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Aziza Cooper sends photographs of <strong>winter moths <em>Operophtera <\/em>sp. <\/strong>from&nbsp; Goldstream Park, January 21.&nbsp; Now all we have to do is to determine which species.&nbsp; The first is, to me (writes Jeremy Tatum), a typical <strong><em>O. occidentalis<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>The remaining three don&rsquo;t look typical any of them (not that any of these variable moths have a &ldquo;typical&rdquo; form!), but I don&rsquo;t see any <em>occdentalis<\/em> in any of these three, and they certainly aren&rsquo;t <em>danbyi<\/em>, so I&rsquo;m going to label them probably &nbsp;<strong><em>O. brumata<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/C-Moth-Goldstream-1b.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Operophtera occidentalis <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>[Thinking <em>sotto voce<\/em>: I wonder if all <em>occidentalis <\/em>have tawny abdomens.<em> &nbsp;<\/em>That would simplify identification if they do.]<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/C-Moth-Goldstream-2b.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Operophtera <\/em>probably <em>brumata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/C-Moth-Goldstream-3b.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Operophtera <\/em>probably <em>brumata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/C-Moth-Goldstream-4b.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Operophtera <\/em>probably <em>brumata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 January 22 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Aziza Cooper sends photographs of winter moths Operophtera sp. from&nbsp; Goldstream Park, January 21.&nbsp; Now all we have to do is to determine which species.&nbsp; The first is, to me (writes Jeremy Tatum), a typical O. occidentalis.&nbsp;&nbsp; The remaining three don&rsquo;t look typical any of them (not that any of these [&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-15300","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\/15300","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=15300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}