{"id":49,"date":"2015-01-05T08:53:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T16:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=49"},"modified":"2016-04-20T14:59:14","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T21:59:14","slug":"2014-december-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"2014 December 04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The introduced European Winter Moth <em>Operophtera brumata<\/em> is usually a rather featureless grey (like the November 10 photograph), although some specimens can be quite well patterned. I think the European one is the one most often (almost exclusively?) seen in Victoria. The native Bruce\u2019s Winter Moth <em>O. bruceata<\/em> (which Bill Katz and Jeremy Tatum have found at Goldstream Park), is usually well patterned. Annie Pang sends a photo of a winter moth from her kitchen window in Victoria. Although it is well patterned, Jeremy Tatum and Jeremy Gatten believe that this is a European Winter Moth<em> O. brumata.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-48\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/invertalert_clip_image002_0082.jpg\" alt=\"invertalert clip image002 0082\" width=\"720\" height=\"788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/invertalert_clip_image002_0082.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/invertalert_clip_image002_0082-274x300.jpg 274w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Winter Moth <em>Operophtera brumata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The introduced European Winter Moth Operophtera brumata is usually a rather featureless grey (like the November 10 photograph), although some specimens can be quite well patterned. I think the European one is the one most often (almost exclusively?) seen in Victoria. The native Bruce\u2019s Winter Moth O. bruceata (which Bill Katz and Jeremy Tatum have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","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=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2176,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/2176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}