{"id":23485,"date":"2024-09-07T20:34:49","date_gmt":"2024-09-08T03:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=23485"},"modified":"2024-09-07T20:34:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T03:34:49","slug":"2024-september-7-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=23485","title":{"rendered":"2024 September 7 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2024 September 7 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Val George writes:\u00a0 This morning, September 7, there were three moths on the walls of my Oak Bay house: an<em>\u00a0<strong>Autographa californica<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0and 2 <strong><em>Drepanulatrix<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0moths<em>,<strong> D<\/strong>.<strong> monicaria<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0, maybe <strong><em>secundaria<\/em><\/strong><em>?<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; maybe neither?<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 These two <em>Drepanulatrix <\/em>species are so similar \u2013 especially as the variation within a species is greater than the difference between the two of them \u2013 that I sometimes wonder whether they really do deserve separate full species status.\u00a0 I think I\u2019ll label this one either\/or, although I think there is a slightly greater probability that it is <em>secundaria<\/em>, so I\u2019ll put that name first.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23483 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Alfalfa-Looper-11-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"411\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Alfalfa-Looper-11-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Alfalfa-Looper-11-719x1024.jpg 719w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 411px) 100vw, 411px\" \/><\/strong><em>Autographa californica\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae \u2013 Plusiinae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23484 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Drepanulatrix-sp.-2-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"690\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Drepanulatrix-sp.-2-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Drepanulatrix-sp.-2-1024x646.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Drepanulatrix-sp.-2-768x484.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Drepanulatrix-sp.-2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><em>Drepanulatrix secundaria<\/em>\/<em>monicaria\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Jeff Gaskin reports that the <strong>Black Saddlebags <\/strong>that he reported on September 5 in Esquimalt Gorge Park was still there today, Sepember 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 September 7 evening \u00a0 Val George writes:\u00a0 This morning, September 7, there were three moths on the walls of my Oak Bay house: an\u00a0Autographa californica\u00a0and 2 Drepanulatrix\u00a0moths, D. monicaria\u00a0, maybe secundaria?\u00a0&#8211; maybe neither? Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 These two Drepanulatrix species are so similar \u2013 especially as the variation within a species is greater than [&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-23485","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\/23485","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=23485"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23488,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23485\/revisions\/23488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}