{"id":17816,"date":"2023-04-06T21:45:23","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T04:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=17816"},"modified":"2023-04-06T21:56:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T04:56:59","slug":"2023-april-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=17816","title":{"rendered":"2023 April 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\">2023 April 6<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr sends photographs from Metchosin from the last couple of nights.\u00a0 It is often difficult to distinguish between <i>Eupithecia ravocostaliata <\/i>and <i>E. nevadata<\/i>.\u00a0\u00a0 The mid-costal dark patch is supposed to be rectangular in the former and triangular in the latter. \u00a0The difficulty is that this patch is often somewhat ill-defined in shape and it is difficult to say whether it is more nearly triangular or more nearly rectangular.\u00a0 The patch looks unambiguously triangular in this one, so we feel fairly confident in labelling it <b><i>Eupithecia nevadata<\/i><\/b><i>.<\/i><\/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\/2023\/04\/image-3.png\" alt=\"image.png\" width=\"494\" height=\"313\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><i>Eupithecia nevadata <\/i>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0\u00a0 JochenM\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-4.png\" alt=\"image.png\" width=\"298\" height=\"414\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0<i>Hypena californica <\/i>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Hypeninae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-5.png\" alt=\"image.png\" width=\"313\" height=\"414\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><i>Hypena californica\u00a0 <\/i>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Hypeninae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-6.png\" alt=\"image.png\" width=\"479\" height=\"255\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><i>Alucita montana\u00a0 <\/i>(Lep.: Alucitidae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 April 6 &nbsp; \u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr sends photographs from Metchosin from the last couple of nights.\u00a0 It is often difficult to distinguish between Eupithecia ravocostaliata and E. nevadata.\u00a0\u00a0 The mid-costal dark patch is supposed to be rectangular in the former and triangular in the latter. \u00a0The difficulty is that this patch is often somewhat [&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-17816","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\/17816","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=17816"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17823,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17816\/revisions\/17823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}