{"id":7313,"date":"2018-11-16T14:35:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T22:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7313"},"modified":"2018-11-16T14:36:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T22:36:47","slug":"november-16-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7313","title":{"rendered":"November 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2018 November 16<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I visited Goldstream Park Nature House this morning.&nbsp; There were dozens of  <strong>Winter Moths<\/strong> there, but as far as I could see they were all <strong>  <em>Operophtera brumata<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; I didn&#8217;t see any that I thought were <em>  O. bruceata<\/em>.&nbsp; I wonder if they have a different flight period, because I know I have seen them there before.&nbsp; The only other moths I saw there were a  <strong><em>Triphosa haesitata <\/em><\/strong><strong>(American Tissue Moth)<\/strong>, which was too high up to photograph, and the moth below.&nbsp; The question is:&nbsp; What is it?&nbsp; It is certainly  <strong><em>Erannis <\/em><\/strong><strong>sp., <\/strong>and it is not <em>E. tiliaria.<\/em><em>&nbsp;  <\/em>Is it the European<em> E. defoliaria <\/em>(which I think it is!), or is it <em>  E. vancouverensis<\/em>?&nbsp;&nbsp; Are these two really distinct species?&nbsp; If so, which is the one we get here?&nbsp; Is there really such an animal as  <em>E. vancouverensis<\/em>?&nbsp; For safely, I&#8217;ll just label it <strong><em>Erannis <\/em>  <\/strong><strong>sp.&nbsp; <\/strong>(even though I think it&#8217;s <em>defoliaria<\/em>!).  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"Erannis.JPG\" originalwidth=\"1200\" originalheight=\"854\" setheight=\"448\" setwidth=\"630\" hasheight=\"false\" style=\"width: 630px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Erannis.jpg\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Erannis <\/em>sp.&nbsp; (Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 November 16 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I visited Goldstream Park Nature House this morning.&nbsp; There were dozens of Winter Moths there, but as far as I could see they were all Operophtera brumata.&nbsp; I didn&#8217;t see any that I thought were O. bruceata.&nbsp; I wonder if they have a different flight period, because [&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-7313","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\/7313","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=7313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}