{"id":15646,"date":"2022-05-24T16:51:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T23:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15646"},"modified":"2022-05-24T16:58:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T23:58:15","slug":"2022-may-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15646","title":{"rendered":"2022 May 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 May 24<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>&nbsp; <\/strong>On May 23 Val George had, on his Oak Bay property, a rather worse-for-wear <strong>Ceanothus Silk Moth <em>Hyalophora euryalus<\/em>, <\/strong>which he spared the indignity of being photographed when not at its best.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; And today he had at his home the woodling (<em>Egira <\/em>sp.) shown below.&nbsp; At this time of year we have come to dread the problem of distinguishing between <em>Egira crucialis <\/em>from<em> E. simplex<\/em>.&nbsp; Some of them are easy; others are less so.&nbsp; Libby Avis and Jeremy Tatum are in agreement that this is one of the difficult individuals;&nbsp; one of us leans towards <em>crucialis, <\/em>while the other opts for <em>simplex. <\/em>Thus we&rsquo;ll have to be content with labelling this one as an either\/or.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Egira.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"864\" height=\"644\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Egira crucialis<\/em>\/<em> simplex <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum photographed today the little white moth below from Swan Lake:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_4180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"541\" height=\"784\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Euceratia castella <\/em>(Lep.: Plutellidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 May 24 &nbsp;&nbsp; On May 23 Val George had, on his Oak Bay property, a rather worse-for-wear Ceanothus Silk Moth Hyalophora euryalus, which he spared the indignity of being photographed when not at its best. &nbsp;&nbsp; And today he had at his home the woodling (Egira sp.) shown below.&nbsp; At this time of year [&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-15646","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\/15646","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=15646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}