{"id":17852,"date":"2023-04-09T23:11:08","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T06:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=17852"},"modified":"2023-04-09T23:33:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T06:33:35","slug":"2023-april-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=17852","title":{"rendered":"2023 April 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\"><b>2023 April 9<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Val George sends photographs from his Oak Bay home of two geometrid moths that are notoriously difficult to identify.\u00a0\u00a0 The first is one of <i>Eupithecia ravocostaliata<\/i>\/<i>nevadata.\u00a0 <\/i>Is the mid-costal patch rectangular (<i>ravocostaliata<\/i>)<br \/>\nor triangular (<i>nevadata<\/i>)?\u00a0\u00a0 The second is a species of <i>Drepanulatrix<\/i> \u2013 possibly <i>secundaria<\/i> or possibly <i>monicaria<\/i>.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I don\u2019t have the courage to label either of these moths with confident identifications at species<br \/>\nlevel.\u00a0 They are already notoriously difficult \u2013 I would just muddy the waters if I were to label them as certain identifications and get them wrong.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"postie-post\">\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-15.png\" alt=\"image.png\" width=\"414\" height=\"287\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><i>Eupithecia ravocostaliata<\/i>\/<i>nevadata\u00a0\u00a0 <\/i>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<div class=\"postie-post\">\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-16.png\" alt=\"image.png\" width=\"306\" height=\"414\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><i>Drepanulatrix <\/i>sp.\u00a0 (Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 April 9 &nbsp; \u00a0\u00a0 Val George sends photographs from his Oak Bay home of two geometrid moths that are notoriously difficult to identify.\u00a0\u00a0 The first is one of Eupithecia ravocostaliata\/nevadata.\u00a0 Is the mid-costal patch rectangular (ravocostaliata) or triangular (nevadata)?\u00a0\u00a0 The second is a species of Drepanulatrix \u2013 possibly secundaria or possibly monicaria.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum [&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-17852","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\/17852","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=17852"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17858,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17852\/revisions\/17858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}