{"id":3692,"date":"2017-03-01T08:10:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T16:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3692"},"modified":"2017-03-01T16:25:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T00:25:00","slug":"march-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3692","title":{"rendered":"March 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2017 March 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Best wishes for St David&#8217;s Day, Val.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Dar Churcher photographed the micro moth below in Metchosin last week.&nbsp; Many thanks to Eric LaGasa for identifying it for us.&nbsp; Eric writes:&nbsp; This nice image is a very dark  <strong><em>Oegoconia novimundi, <\/em><\/strong>a fairly common detritivore species that does seem to overwinter as an adult and can be very common at porch lights in summer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; It apparently also has an English name:&nbsp; <strong>Four-spotted Yellowneck<\/strong>. &nbsp; It is the first representative of its Family to appear on Invert Alert.  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"705\" originalwidth=\"1024\" name=\"\" title=\"BandY micro.jpg\" height=\"354.15234375\" width=\"514.4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BandY-micro.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\"><em>Oegoconia novimundi  <\/em>(Lep.:&nbsp; Autostichidae)&nbsp; Dar Churcher<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; In the February 16 posting, we mentioned the appeal for volunteers for &#8220;butterfly rangers&#8221; for the David Suzuki Foundation&#8217;s Butterfly Project.&nbsp; I am told that, in spite of the very short notice before the application deadline, there were more than 100   applications from Victoria.&nbsp; Wow! Isn&#8217;t that something!&nbsp; If any contributors to the Invert Alert Website are among the rangers, we would be glad to hear how things go.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 March 1 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Best wishes for St David&#8217;s Day, Val. &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Dar Churcher photographed the micro moth below in Metchosin last week.&nbsp; Many thanks to Eric LaGasa for identifying it for us.&nbsp; Eric writes:&nbsp; This nice image is a very dark Oegoconia novimundi, a fairly common detritivore species that does seem to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3692","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\/3692","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}