{"id":9331,"date":"2019-09-12T16:04:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T23:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=9331"},"modified":"2019-09-12T16:06:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T23:06:27","slug":"september-12-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=9331","title":{"rendered":"September 12 afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2019 September 12 afternoon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I have never paid much attention to those little grass veneer moths that one sees almost everywhere in grassy fields, regarding them as both unidentifiable and uninteresting.&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr and Libby Avis coincidentally   within a few days of each other obtained excellent photographs of these little moths, showing what interesting creatures they are.&nbsp; Libby&#8217;s is identified as  <\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Agriphila attenuata<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; We haven&#8217;t as yet identified Jochen&#8217;s to species, but it is almost certainly of the same genus.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"685\" originalheight=\"424\" width=\"597.6\" height=\"369.90131386861316\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pastedImage-72.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Agriphila attenuata <\/em>(Lep.: Crambidae)&nbsp; Libby Avis<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;   <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"742\" originalheight=\"403\" width=\"597.6\" height=\"324.57250673854446\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pastedImage-73.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Probably <em>Agriphila <\/em>sp. (Lep.: Crambidae)&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; There is a front page story in today&#8217;s <em>Times-Colonist <\/em>saying that three specimens of the  <strong>Asian Giant Hornet <\/strong><strong><em>Vespa mandarinia<\/em><\/strong> have been seen in Nanaimo.&nbsp; They are said to vary in length from 3.5 cm to 5 cm (queens) with a wingspan of 7 mm.&nbsp; Go and get a ruler and see what these numbers really mean!<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 September 12 afternoon &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I have never paid much attention to those little grass veneer moths that one sees almost everywhere in grassy fields, regarding them as both unidentifiable and uninteresting.&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr and Libby Avis coincidentally within a few days of each other obtained excellent photographs of these little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9331","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\/9331","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=9331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}