{"id":24357,"date":"2024-12-07T19:16:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T03:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=24357"},"modified":"2024-12-07T19:16:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T03:16:38","slug":"2024-december-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=24357","title":{"rendered":"2024 December 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2024 December 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No Invertebrate Alerts have been issued since December 1.<\/p>\n<p>Aziza Cooper reports several <strong>Winter Moths <\/strong>from her house in Saanich.\u00a0 We show one of them here. These moths are abundant and ubiquitous at present and are nearly all <strong>European Winter Moths <em>Operophtera brumata<\/em>.\u00a0 <\/strong>We encourge photographers to visit the Nature House at Goldstream Park and photograph Winter Moths there.\u00a0 There is a very good chance there that you will photograph the native Western Winter Moth <em>Operophtera occidentalis<\/em>.\u00a0 I went there yesterday, and saw only one moth, which I believe to have been O. <em>brumata<\/em>.\u00a0 Photographers should go there soon, for it will soon be too late in the season.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24347 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/C-Moth-Salsbury-3-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"451\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/C-Moth-Salsbury-3-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/C-Moth-Salsbury-3.jpg 644w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/>European Winter Moth <em>Operophtera brumata\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ian Cooper writes:\u00a0\u00a0 Here are eight recent photos taken at *Colquitz River Park in Saanich and the #Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal between Dec 1 &#8211; 5, 2024.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24348 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11113035cs1-279x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"569\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11113035cs1-279x300.jpg 279w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11113035cs1-951x1024.jpg 951w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11113035cs1-768x827.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11113035cs1.jpg 1114w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 569px) 100vw, 569px\" \/>* A very small (2.5 mm) female linyphiid spider (Ara.: Linyphiidae- Erigoniinae) \u00a0Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24349 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11113047cs1-300x259.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11113047cs1-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11113047cs1-1024x885.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11113047cs1-768x664.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11113047cs1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/>* A very small (2.5 mm) male linyphiid spider (Ara.: Linyphiidae- Erigoniinae) \u00a0Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24350 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11113123c1-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11113123c1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11113123c1-1024x687.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11113123c1-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11113123c1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/># Dusky Arion \u00a0<em>Arion subfuscus <\/em>\u00a0(Pul.: Arionidae) \u00a0Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24353 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11113234c-300x275.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"586\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11113234c-300x275.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11113234c-1024x938.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11113234c-768x703.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11113234c.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\" \/>* A young, vividly marked <em>Limax maximus<\/em>\u00a0(Pul.: Limacidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24351 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11113201c1-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"649\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11113201c1-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11113201c1-1024x832.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11113201c1-768x624.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11113201c1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 649px) 100vw, 649px\" \/>Yellow-Bordered Taildroppers <em>Prophysaon foliolatum<\/em>\u00a0(Pul.: Arionidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24352 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11113216c-300x269.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"538\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11113216c-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11113216c-1024x918.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11113216c-768x689.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11113216c.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/># Elongate-bodied springtail <em>Tomocerus <\/em>sp.\u00a0(Coll.: Tomoceridae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24354 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11113337cs-300x263.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"579\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11113337cs-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11113337cs-1024x898.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11113337cs-768x673.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11113337cs.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/># Globular Springtail \u00a0<em>Dicyrtomina minuta <\/em>f.<em> saundersi <\/em>\u00a0(Coll.: Dicyrtominidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24355 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11113384-cs-300x282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11113384-cs-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11113384-cs-1024x963.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11113384-cs-768x722.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/11113384-cs.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/># Fungus Gnat, possibly <em>Dynatosoma <\/em>sp. (Dip.: Mycetophilidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 December 7 No Invertebrate Alerts have been issued since December 1. Aziza Cooper reports several Winter Moths from her house in Saanich.\u00a0 We show one of them here. These moths are abundant and ubiquitous at present and are nearly all European Winter Moths Operophtera brumata.\u00a0 We encourge photographers to visit the Nature House at [&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-24357","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\/24357","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=24357"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24360,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24357\/revisions\/24360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}