{"id":15334,"date":"2022-02-12T17:05:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T01:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15334"},"modified":"2022-02-12T17:07:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T01:07:32","slug":"2022-february-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15334","title":{"rendered":"2022 February 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 February 12<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeremy Gatten writes that so far this year he has seen the following at his Central Saanich house: <strong><em>Phigalia plumogeraria<\/em>, <em>Agonopterix alstroemeriana<\/em>, <em>Hydriomena nubilofasciata<\/em>, <em>Eupithecia annulata<\/em><\/strong> (best guess really), and <strong><em>Hypena californica<\/em><\/strong><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em>&nbsp; <\/em>Val George writes:&nbsp; There were three of these guys at the door of the Nature House at Swan Lake yesterday.&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; Val is right in referring to them as &ldquo;guys&rdquo; &ndash; the females are wingless.&nbsp; I wonder if there are any females at the Nature House &ndash; probably not, because the males will have flown there, attracted by the lights.&nbsp; The females will be crawling up the tree-trunks.&nbsp; The male in the photograph is hiding its magnificent bipectinate antennae.<\/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\/2022\/02\/Moth-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"695\" height=\"480\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Phigalia plumogeraria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Val George<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 February 12 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Gatten writes that so far this year he has seen the following at his Central Saanich house: Phigalia plumogeraria, Agonopterix alstroemeriana, Hydriomena nubilofasciata, Eupithecia annulata (best guess really), and Hypena californica. &nbsp;&nbsp; Val George writes:&nbsp; There were three of these guys at the door of the Nature House at Swan [&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-15334","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\/15334","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=15334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}