{"id":20577,"date":"2023-12-24T19:27:19","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T03:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=20577"},"modified":"2023-12-24T19:27:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T03:27:19","slug":"2023-december-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=20577","title":{"rendered":"2023 December 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2023 December 24<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today, a good comparison\u00a0 between a <strong>European Winter Moth <em>Operophtera brumata<\/em><\/strong> (photographed by Jochen M\u00f6hr in Metchosin) and a <strong>Western Winter Moth <em>O. occidentalis <\/em><\/strong>(photographed by Val George at the Goldstream nature house).<strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <em>O. brumata<\/em> <\/strong>is quite variable, some specimens having almost no pattern, while others, like Jochen\u2019s shown here, have a well-marked pattern.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The feature that identifies Val\u2019s as <strong><em>occidentalis<\/em><\/strong> is the broad dark streak running from near the discal spot to the mid-point of the outer margin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20576 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/P1020146-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/P1020146-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/P1020146-768x583.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/P1020146.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><em>Operophtera brumata\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20575 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Operophtera-occidentalis-12-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Operophtera-occidentalis-12-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Operophtera-occidentalis-12-1024x701.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Operophtera-occidentalis-12.jpg 1110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><em>Operophtera occidentalis\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 December 24 Today, a good comparison\u00a0 between a European Winter Moth Operophtera brumata (photographed by Jochen M\u00f6hr in Metchosin) and a Western Winter Moth O. occidentalis (photographed by Val George at the Goldstream nature house).\u00a0\u00a0 O. brumata is quite variable, some specimens having almost no pattern, while others, like Jochen\u2019s shown here, have a [&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-20577","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\/20577","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=20577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20578,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20577\/revisions\/20578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}