{"id":17234,"date":"2022-11-24T19:47:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T03:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=17234"},"modified":"2022-12-19T22:22:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T06:22:14","slug":"2022-november-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=17234","title":{"rendered":"2022 November 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 November 24<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Cheryl Hoyle sends a photograph of a <strong>Western Conifer Seed Bug<\/strong> from View Royal yesterday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/DSC_1265-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Leptoglossus occidentalis <\/em>(Hem.: Coreidae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jochen M\u00f6hr writes from Metchosin: After a long hiatus, an <strong><em>Erannis\u00a0vancouverensis<\/em><\/strong> was on our wall yesterday morning.<\/p>\n<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/P1700010.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Erannis vancouverensis<\/em>\/<em>defoliaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I retain my long-held suspicions that this may actually be the European <em>E.defoliaria<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Also, in Saanich, I have had the same experience as Jochen, with a long hiatus.\u00a0 Until yesterday, November 23, I had seen only two Winter Moths this November \u2013 on November 11 and 15.\u00a0 Then suddenly, yesterday, four turned up at the back door of my apartment building.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, November 23, Jochen also photographed the beautiful moth below.\u00a0 Libby Avis writes: That\u2019s a really pretty moth. It\u2019s an <em>Acleris<\/em> for sure (family Tortricidae), but they\u2019re notoriously difficult to sort out \u2013 lots of variation even among individuals of the same species. Haven\u2019t seen one like that, so I sent it to Dave Holden who does a lot of work on micro moths. He thinks <em>Acleris semiannula<\/em> is probably the closest match, but he hasn\u2019t seen that pattern form either, so it\u2019s just a best guess &#8211; it would need dissection to be sure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/P1700002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Acleris <\/em>(probably <em>semiannula<\/em>) (Lep.: Tortricidae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 November 24 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle sends a photograph of a Western Conifer Seed Bug from View Royal yesterday. Leptoglossus occidentalis (Hem.: Coreidae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle &nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr writes from Metchosin: After a long hiatus, an Erannis\u00a0vancouverensis was on our wall yesterday morning. Erannis vancouverensis\/defoliaria (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen M\u00f6hr &nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I retain [&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-17234","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\/17234","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=17234"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17339,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17234\/revisions\/17339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}