{"id":9829,"date":"2019-12-05T15:50:11","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T23:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=9829"},"modified":"2019-12-05T15:57:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T23:57:04","slug":"december-5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=9829","title":{"rendered":"December 5"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Well, I suppose I asked for it!   Just when I was beginning to think that I <\/p>\n

knew the difference between  Operophtera brumata <\/em>and O. occidentalis, <\/em>Jochen M\u00f6hr sends a bunch of<\/p>\n

 Operophtera <\/em> photographs from Metchosin, most of which are shaking my confidence!   In fact,  I<\/p>\n

 believe (but I could well be wrong) that all are probably O.<\/em>  <\/em>brumata<\/em>,  though I’m going to label the first <\/p>\n

one below as “sp.”,  since it has a small claim to be possibly occcidentalis<\/em>! <\/em><\/p>\n

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  I’d be interested in photographs of females.<\/p>\n

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  Jochen also sends a picture of a Drepanulatrix \u00ad<\/em>species, presumably either monicaria<\/em> or secundaria <\/em>– but let’s just leave that as “sp.” for the time being!<\/p>\n

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Operophtera <\/em>sp.  (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Operophtera brumata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Operophtera brumata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Operophtera brumata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Operophtera brumata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen M\u00f6hr <\/p>\n

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Operophtera brumata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Operophtera brumata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Drepanulatrix <\/em>sp. (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen M\u00f6hr <\/p>\n

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2019 December 5      Jeremy Tatum writes:  Well, I suppose I asked for it!   Just when I was beginning to think that I knew the difference between  Operophtera brumata and O. occidentalis, Jochen M\u00f6hr sends a bunch of  Operophtera  photographs from Metchosin, most of which are shaking my confidence!   In fact,  I  believe (but […]<\/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-9829","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\/9829","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=9829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}