{"id":5323,"date":"2017-11-10T16:18:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T00:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5323"},"modified":"2017-11-13T14:04:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T22:04:04","slug":"november-10-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5323","title":{"rendered":"November 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2017 November 10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jochen Moehr sends pictures of two <strong>White-speck Moths <\/strong>from Metchosin yesterday.\u00a0 This is the adult of the caterpillar known to agriculture as the <strong>Armyworm<\/strong> (see September 12).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 490px;\" title=\"Joch Wspeck1.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Joch-Wspeck1.jpg\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">White-speck Moth <em>Mythimna unipuncta <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 525px;\" title=\"Joch Wspeck2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Joch-Wspeck2.jpg\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">White-speck Moth <em>Mythimna unipuncta <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jochen also sends pictures of three geometrid moths.\u00a0 Now, are these the European Winter Moth?\u00a0 They look slightly different, so maybe they are Bruce\u2019s?\u00a0 Isn\u2019t it hard! \u00a0Actually, although some Winter Moths are already around, it\u2019s not quite winter yet &#8211; it is still autumn, and I believe all three of these are in fact <strong>Autumnal Moths<\/strong>.\u00a0 See the row of double dots along the outer margin (termen) of both the fore- and the hindwings.\u00a0 Also, Jochen&#8217;s moth of November 8 &#8211;\u00a0 I had labelled it as a Winter Moth, but it is a very worn specimen, and if you look along the outer margin carefully, you can just make out the double spots &#8211; or at least where they were.\u00a0 I have relabelled the November 8 moth an <strong>Autumnal Moth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Will someone go to Goldstream Park Nature House and try and get a photo of Bruce\u2019s Winter Moth for us?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Joch Aut1.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Joch-Aut1.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"520.5066666666667\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Autumnal Moth <em>Epirrita autumnata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Joch Aut2.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Joch-Aut2.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"458.91999999999996\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Autumnal Moth <em>Epirrita autumnata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image010.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Joch Aut3.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Joch-Aut3.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"549.3133333333333\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Autumnal Moth <em>Epirrita autumnata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image011.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 November 10 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jochen Moehr sends pictures of two White-speck Moths from Metchosin yesterday.\u00a0 This is the adult of the caterpillar known to agriculture as the Armyworm (see September 12). &nbsp; White-speck Moth Mythimna unipuncta (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Moehr White-speck Moth Mythimna unipuncta (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Moehr &nbsp; &nbsp; Jochen also sends pictures [&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-5323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert","post_format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5323","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=5323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5333,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5323\/revisions\/5333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}