{"id":9915,"date":"2019-12-27T14:48:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T22:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=9915"},"modified":"2019-12-27T14:58:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T22:58:11","slug":"december-27-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=9915","title":{"rendered":"December 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2019 December 27<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; Apologies for showing yet another Winter Moth, but this one, photographed this morning at UVIc, is the first time I have seen what I believe to be  <strong><em>Operophtera occidentalis <\/em><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>either at UVic or at my Saanich apartment.&nbsp;&nbsp; It is maybe a couple of weeks since I have seen<em> Operophtera brumata,  <\/em>and<em> <\/em>seeing this <em>occidentalis<\/em> today reinforces my suspicion that perhaps  <em>occidentalis <\/em>flies a little later than <em>brumata.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 558px; 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=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"558\" originalheight=\"594\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/pastedImage-68.png\">&nbsp;  <br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Operophtera occidentalis <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Gordon Hart sends one from the Highlands.&nbsp; I think it is <strong><em>O. brumata  <\/em><\/strong>beginning to look a little bit past its &#8220;sell by&#8221; date.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"490\" width=\"576\" height=\"452.3076923076923\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/pastedImage-69.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Operophtera brumata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 December 27 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; Apologies for showing yet another Winter Moth, but this one, photographed this morning at UVIc, is the first time I have seen what I believe to be Operophtera occidentalis &nbsp;either at UVic or at my Saanich apartment.&nbsp;&nbsp; It is maybe a couple of weeks since I have [&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-9915","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\/9915","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=9915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}