{"id":5462,"date":"2018-01-15T15:52:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T23:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5462"},"modified":"2018-01-15T15:58:22","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T23:58:22","slug":"january-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5462","title":{"rendered":"January 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2018 January 15<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jochen Moehr sends a photograph of a noctuid moth from Metchosin.&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; This one beat me, but Libby Avis identifies it as a dark specimen of  <strong><em>Orthosia praeses<\/em><\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>&#8211;  <\/strong>one of the earliest noctuids to appear in the early weeks of the year.&nbsp; Other early noctuids to look out for are  <em>Egira hiemalis <\/em>and <em>Eupsilia tristigmata. <\/em>Also <em>Scoliopteryx libratrix  <\/em>(formerly a noctuid but now an erebid) and the geometrid <em>Phigalia plumogeraria<\/em>.&nbsp;  <\/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;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"837\" originalwidth=\"1117\" name=\"\" title=\"P1070880.JPG\" height=\"446.5998209489705\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P1070880.jpg\"><br \/>  <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Orthosia praeses <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp; Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; And what about butterflies?&nbsp; Can we expect to see any soon?&nbsp; For very many years the Red Admiral was never believed to stay in the British Isles during the winter &#8211; they either died or flew south, similar to our situation here.&nbsp; However, in recent years   Red Admirals &#8211; either as adult insects or as caterpillars &#8211; regularly spend the winter in southern England.&nbsp; This year already there have been records of caterpillars (January 7) and adults (January 10) in Sussex.&nbsp; Might it be worth looking out for them here?&nbsp;   We might also expect (or at least hope) to see Mourning Cloaks, except that last year was not a good year for them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 January 15 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jochen Moehr sends a photograph of a noctuid moth from Metchosin.&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; This one beat me, but Libby Avis identifies it as a dark specimen of Orthosia praeses &nbsp;&#8211; one of the earliest noctuids to appear in the early weeks of the year.&nbsp; Other early noctuids to look [&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-5462","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\/5462","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=5462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}