{"id":9886,"date":"2019-12-18T15:40:39","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T23:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=9886"},"modified":"2019-12-26T10:14:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T18:14:45","slug":"december-18-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=9886","title":{"rendered":"December 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2019 December 18<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jochen M\u00f6hr writes from Metchosin:\u00a0 I continue to\u00a0have some 6\u00a0+\/- 3 <strong><em>Operophtera<\/em><\/strong> on my wall every morning.\u00a0 Most are drab looking ones, probably <strong><em>O. brumata<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 This morning there was a different one, perhaps an <strong><em>occidentalis<\/em><\/strong>?\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum replies:\u00a0 Yes, I believe this is indeed <strong><em>Operophtera occidentalis.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/pastedImage-52.png\" width=\"581.6\" height=\"524.7448717948718\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Operophtera occidentalis <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0 Since <em>Operophtera occidentalis<\/em> is more likely to be seen in rural rather than urban areas, Gordon Hart has been keeping his eye and camera lens open for the species in the Highlands, although so far they seem to be mostly <em>O. brumata<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/pastedImage-53.png\" width=\"581.6\" height=\"428.7435897435898\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Operophtera brumata <\/em>I(Lep.: Geometrdae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 December 18 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr writes from Metchosin:\u00a0 I continue to\u00a0have some 6\u00a0+\/- 3 Operophtera on my wall every morning.\u00a0 Most are drab looking ones, probably O. brumata.\u00a0\u00a0 This morning there was a different one, perhaps an occidentalis?\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum replies:\u00a0 Yes, I believe this is indeed Operophtera occidentalis. &nbsp; Operophtera occidentalis (Lep.: [&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-9886","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\/9886","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=9886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9913,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9886\/revisions\/9913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}