{"id":7240,"date":"2018-10-12T16:21:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T23:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7240"},"modified":"2018-10-12T16:26:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T23:26:20","slug":"october-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7240","title":{"rendered":"October 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2018 October 12<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>On October 10, Aziza photographed this very black moth at the Swan Lake nature house.&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; This has puizzled me, for it is just the size and shape of a Winter Moth\u00b8 though I have never seen   one so completely black as this, and it is rather early &#8211; they usually appear in November.&nbsp; But I can&#8217;t think of what else it might be, so I am labelling it as a maybe  <strong>Winter Moth.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 439px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"C Swan Lk Moth II 1b.JPG\" originalwidth=\"726\" originalheight=\"548\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"447.4578512396694\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/C-Swan-Lk-Moth-II-1b.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Maybe Winter Moth <em>Operophtera brumata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Gordon Hart writes from his Highlands home:&nbsp; No butterflies today, but we did see this nice  <strong>Girdler<\/strong> <strong>Moth<\/strong> on Buddleia (Butterfly Bush) flowers.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 583px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"D procinctus.jpg\" originalwidth=\"1177\" originalheight=\"1200\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"604.3840271877655\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/D-procinctus.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Girdler Moth <em>Dargida procinctus <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp; Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 October 12 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; On October 10, Aziza photographed this very black moth at the Swan Lake nature house.&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; This has puizzled me, for it is just the size and shape of a Winter Moth\u00b8 though I have never seen one so completely black as this, and it is rather early [&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-7240","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\/7240","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=7240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}