{"id":17125,"date":"2022-11-02T18:11:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T01:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=17125"},"modified":"2022-12-02T21:24:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T05:24:39","slug":"2022-november-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=17125","title":{"rendered":"2022 November 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022\u00a0 November 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Val George writes:\u00a0 Yesterday, November 1, a <strong>Cabbage White<\/strong> butterfly flew in front of me when I was driving along Richmond Road near Mount Tolmie. I think this is the first time I&#8217;ve ever seen an adult of this species in November.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday Jochen M\u00f6hr in Metchosin photographed the underside of a geometrid moth.\u00a0 He says he saw the upperside and that it was an <strong>Autumnal Moth <em>Epirrita autumnata<\/em>.\u00a0 <\/strong>What else, he asks, would one expect at this time of year?\u00a0 It is autumn, after all.\u00a0 Well, we ask, can we agree that it is an Autumnal Moth from Jochen\u2019s photograph?\u00a0 Try this:\u00a0 We can just\u00a0 see the upperside costal margin of one wing.\u00a0 Look carefully, millimetre by millimetre along the costa, all the way from apex to base.\u00a0\u00a0 Now compare what you see with the costa on Jochen\u2019s October 28 photograph.\u00a0 I think you\u2019ll agree that the costas of the two moths agree perfectly, millimetre by millimetre.\u00a0 In addition, we can see the prominent dark <strong>H<\/strong> in the middle of the forewing.\u00a0 I think anyone who carries out this comparison carefully can scarcely doubt that today\u2019s photograph is indeed that of an Autumnal Moth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/P1690888-crop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"456\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Autumnal Moth <em>Epirrita autumnata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022\u00a0 November 2 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Val George writes:\u00a0 Yesterday, November 1, a Cabbage White butterfly flew in front of me when I was driving along Richmond Road near Mount Tolmie. I think this is the first time I&#8217;ve ever seen an adult of this species in November. Yesterday Jochen M\u00f6hr in Metchosin photographed the underside of [&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-17125","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\/17125","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=17125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17288,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17125\/revisions\/17288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}