{"id":20487,"date":"2023-11-10T20:27:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T04:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=20487"},"modified":"2023-11-10T20:27:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T04:27:45","slug":"2023-november-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=20487","title":{"rendered":"2023 November 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2023 November 10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jochen M\u00f6hr writes from Metchosin:\u00a0 Finally, an <em>Operophtera<\/em> &#8211; but which one?<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I\u2019d call this <em>O. brumata<\/em>.\u00a0 I had two at my Saanich apartment this morning \u2013 the first I\u2019ve seen here this season.\u00a0 \u00a0Moth-ers might take their cameras to the Goldstream Park Nature House, where sometimes <em>O. occidentalis<\/em> is the most numerous of the Winter Moths.\u00a0 There is even a chance there of finding the rarer one, <em>O. danbyi<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20486 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/P1020016-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"592\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/P1020016-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/P1020016-1024x783.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/P1020016-768x588.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/P1020016.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/>European Winter Moth <em>Operophtera brumata\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While thinking of yesterday\u2019s photograph of a butterfly drinking tears from the eyes of a caiman, I seem to remember reading somewhere that one of our erebid moths sometimes imbibes fluids from the eyes of cattle.\u00a0 I have forgotten which moth \u2013 it may possibly have been the Herald Moth <em>Scoliopteryx libatrix<\/em>.\u00a0 If any viewer has information on this, please do let us know.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 November 10 \u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr writes from Metchosin:\u00a0 Finally, an Operophtera &#8211; but which one? Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I\u2019d call this O. brumata.\u00a0 I had two at my Saanich apartment this morning \u2013 the first I\u2019ve seen here this season.\u00a0 \u00a0Moth-ers might take their cameras to the Goldstream Park Nature House, where sometimes O. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20487","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\/20487","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20488,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20487\/revisions\/20488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}