{"id":17838,"date":"2023-04-08T16:07:49","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T23:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=17838"},"modified":"2023-04-08T16:13:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T23:13:51","slug":"2023-april-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=17838","title":{"rendered":"2023 April 7"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2023 April 7<\/b><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/b>Jochen M\u00f6hr seems to have solved the problem of how to distinguish between Eupithecia nevadata <\/i><\/b>\u00a0and E. ravocostaliata<\/i><\/b> \u2013 by photographing one of each at his Metchosin home last night!\u00a0 Look at the shape of the dark mid-costal patch \u2013 triangular in nevadata<\/i> <\/b>and a thin rectangle in ravocostaliata.\u00a0 <\/b><\/i>\u00a0<\/b>Klaus Bolte, in his monograph on Canadian pugs, also mentions that the shade of brown in the two species is different.\u00a0 Difficult to describe in words, but quite evident in Jochen\u2019s photographs.<\/p>\n

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Eupithecia nevadata\u00a0\u00a0 <\/i>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Eupithecia ravocostaliata\u00a0\u00a0 <\/i>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen also photographed an Emmelina monodactyla<\/i><\/b>:<\/p>\n

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<\/span>Emmelina monodactyla\u00a0 <\/i>(Lep.: Pterophoridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Val George photographed an Oak Winter Highflyer<\/b> that was was on the wall of his Oak Bay house this morning, April 7:<\/p>\n

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Hydriomena nubilofasciata\u00a0 <\/i>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jeff Gaskin saw his first of the year Cabbage White<\/b> today, April 07, in Helmcken Centennial Park.<\/p>\n

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2023 April 7 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr seems to have solved the problem of how to distinguish between Eupithecia nevadata \u00a0and E. ravocostaliata \u2013 by photographing one of each at his Metchosin home last night!\u00a0 Look at the shape of the dark mid-costal patch \u2013 triangular in nevadata and a thin rectangle in ravocostaliata.\u00a0 \u00a0Klaus […]<\/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-17838","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\/17838","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=17838"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17844,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17838\/revisions\/17844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}