{"id":17347,"date":"2022-12-27T16:42:46","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T00:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=17347"},"modified":"2022-12-27T17:32:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T01:32:11","slug":"2022-december-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=17347","title":{"rendered":"2022 December 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\"><b>2022 December 27<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\"><b>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/b>Jochen M\u00f6hr writes from Metchosin:\u00a0 After a moist night with temperatures around<br \/>\n+9 degrees C, this morning a dozen <b><i>Operophtera<\/i><\/b> near the light, some dead in the rain, some out of reach of the tripod-mounted camera.\u00a0 Here are pictures of some of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 The question is:\u00a0 Are they European Winter Moths <i>O. brumata<\/i>, or our native Western Winter Moths <i>O. occidentalis<\/i>?\u00a0 \u00a0In my (not infallible!) judgement, two are almost certainly <i>brumata<\/i>, two are almost certainly <i>occidentalis<\/i>, and I\u2019m not sure of the other two.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-20.png\" alt=\"image.png\" width=\"515\" height=\"385\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><i>Operophtera brumata <\/i>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-21.png\" alt=\"image.png\" width=\"535\" height=\"401\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><i>Operophtera brumata <\/i>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-22.png\" alt=\"image.png\" width=\"547\" height=\"324\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><i>Operophtera brumata\/occidentalis<\/i>? (Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-23.png\" alt=\"image.png\" width=\"512\" height=\"377\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><i>Operophtera brumata\/occidentalis<\/i>? (Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-24.png\" alt=\"image.png\" width=\"541\" height=\"426\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><i>Operophtera occidentalis <\/i>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-25.png\" alt=\"image.png\" width=\"435\" height=\"275\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><i>Operophtera occidentalis <\/i>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 December 27 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr writes from Metchosin:\u00a0 After a moist night with temperatures around +9 degrees C, this morning a dozen Operophtera near the light, some dead in the rain, some out of reach of the tripod-mounted camera.\u00a0 Here are pictures of some of them. \u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 The question is:\u00a0 [&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-17347","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\/17347","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=17347"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17356,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17347\/revisions\/17356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}