{"id":5390,"date":"2017-12-20T11:18:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T19:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5390"},"modified":"2017-12-20T11:27:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T19:27:59","slug":"december-20-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5390","title":{"rendered":"December 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2017 December 20<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jody Wells writes:&nbsp; Surprised to see this moth outside my window yesterday despite the snow.&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum replies:&nbsp; No need for surprise &#8211; this is the  <strong>European Winter Moth<\/strong>, and this is their time of year.&nbsp; They are all over the place just now, but we are on the look-out for its North American relative, Bruce&#8217;s Winter Moth.&nbsp; We hope that someone might take a camera out to the Nature House   at Goldstream Park and photograph a winter moth there &#8211; it will probably be Bruce&#8217;s.&nbsp; Numbers will fall off in January, so we need to find one fairly soon.&nbsp; See Jochen Moehr&#8217;s photographs of probable Bruce&#8217;s from Metchosin on December 1 and 15.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"895\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"20171219_205950.jpg\" height=\"444.51666666666665\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/20171219_205950.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">European Winter Moth <em>Operophtera brumata <\/em>  (Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Jody Wells<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 December 20 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jody Wells writes:&nbsp; Surprised to see this moth outside my window yesterday despite the snow.&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum replies:&nbsp; No need for surprise &#8211; this is the European Winter Moth, and this is their time of year.&nbsp; They are all over the place just now, but we are on the look-out [&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-5390","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\/5390","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=5390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}