{"id":15484,"date":"2022-04-18T16:16:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T23:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15484"},"modified":"2022-04-19T14:41:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T21:41:03","slug":"2022-april-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15484","title":{"rendered":"2022 April 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 April 18<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jochen M\u00f6hr writes, from Metchosin:\u00a0 <em>Eupithecia ravocostaliata<\/em> &#8211; I presume.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum replies:\u00a0 <em>E. ravocostaliata <\/em>is one of our largest pugs and is distinctively marked.\u00a0 One would think that it would be easy to identify.\u00a0 Unfortunately, it has a look-alike cousin \u00a0&#8211; \u00a0<em>E. nevadata<\/em>. \u00a0\u00a0I\u2019m sure there must be an obvious difference between the two, but I have not yet figured out a completely reliable way of telling which is which.\u00a0 If anyone out there knows, please let us know.\u00a0 Until then, it\u2019ll have to remain an either\/or.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/P1670685.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"512\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Eupithecia ravocostaliata\/nevadata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Note added later, by Libby Avis:<\/p>\n<p>I think this one is probably<em><strong> Eupithecia nevadata<\/strong><\/em> \u2013 lighter brown &amp; larger triangular shaped brown mark along the top (costa) of the wing opposite the discal spot. Like this one on Bug Guide:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/1505131\/bgimage\">https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/1505131\/bgimage<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum adds:\u00a0 It&#8217;s well worth having a look at the Bug Guide site that Libby gives &#8211; the image there certainly does look very like Jochen&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 April 18 Jochen M\u00f6hr writes, from Metchosin:\u00a0 Eupithecia ravocostaliata &#8211; I presume.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum replies:\u00a0 E. ravocostaliata is one of our largest pugs and is distinctively marked.\u00a0 One would think that it would be easy to identify.\u00a0 Unfortunately, it has a look-alike cousin \u00a0&#8211; \u00a0E. nevadata. \u00a0\u00a0I\u2019m sure there must be an obvious difference [&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-15484","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\/15484","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=15484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15487,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15484\/revisions\/15487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}