{"id":5361,"date":"2017-12-02T10:04:56","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T18:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5361"},"modified":"2017-12-02T10:05:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T18:05:59","slug":"december-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5361","title":{"rendered":"December 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   <\/strong>Jochen Moehr writes from Metchosin:  Tonight we have another congregation of six winter moths<\/strong> here.  I am amazed by their variability.  Jeremy Tatum writes:  Yes, this is another challenging case where the variation within a species seems to be at least as great as the variation between species.  The first of Jochen’s photographs below is surely Operophtera brumata<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong>  <\/strong>I don’t think bruceata <\/em>is ever quite as plain as this.<\/p>\n

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European Winter Moth Operophtera brumata <\/em> (Lep.: Geometridae)<\/p>\n

Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n

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  The next one is more strongly patterned, so one must consider that it might be bruceata<\/em>, but I don’t think it is.  I think it is probably  O. brumata<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Probably European Winter Moth Operophtera brumata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)<\/p>\n

 Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n

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   I believe the one below is a genuine native O. bruceata<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong>  <\/strong>I hope I’m right, but I’m going to stick my neck out and omit the word “probably” in the label!<\/p>\n

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Bruce’s Winter Moth Operophtera bruceata <\/em> (Lep.: Geometridae)<\/p>\n

Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n

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2017 December 1      Jochen Moehr writes from Metchosin:  Tonight we have another congregation of six winter moths here.  I am amazed by their variability.  Jeremy Tatum writes:  Yes, this is another challenging case where the variation within a species seems to be at least as great as the variation between species.  The first […]<\/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-5361","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\/5361","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=5361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}