{"id":24419,"date":"2024-12-17T19:50:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T03:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=24419"},"modified":"2024-12-17T19:50:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T03:50:48","slug":"2024-december-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=24419","title":{"rendered":"2024 December 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2024 December 17<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Val George writes: Today &#8211; despite the rather unpleasant conditions &#8211; I decided to respond to your exhortations to check out Goldstream Park for<strong><em> Operophtera occidentalis<\/em><\/strong>. I&#8217;ve been there twice before in the past few weeks and each time found three <em>Operophter<\/em>a moths that were definitely <em>brumata<\/em>. Today, there were 22 moths on the walls of the nature house. About three quarters of them were certainly <em>brumata<\/em>, and some of the others were in places too difficult to identify them. But what about these two?\u00a0\u00a0 [Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 <em>occidentalis<\/em>!!!]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24417 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Operophtera-sp.-3-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"652\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Operophtera-sp.-3-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Operophtera-sp.-3-1024x829.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Operophtera-sp.-3-768x621.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Operophtera-sp.-3.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/><em>Operophtera occidentalis <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24416 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Operophtera-sp.-2-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Operophtera-sp.-2-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Operophtera-sp.-2-1024x824.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Operophtera-sp.-2-768x618.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Operophtera-sp.-2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><em>Operophtera occidentalis <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n<p>Next, writes Jeremy Tatum:\u00a0 Anyone &#8211; try and find a wingless female to photograph!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 December 17 Val George writes: Today &#8211; despite the rather unpleasant conditions &#8211; I decided to respond to your exhortations to check out Goldstream Park for Operophtera occidentalis. I&#8217;ve been there twice before in the past few weeks and each time found three Operophtera moths that were definitely brumata. Today, there were 22 moths [&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-24419","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\/24419","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=24419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24421,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24419\/revisions\/24421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}