{"id":9924,"date":"2020-01-01T15:08:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T23:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=9924"},"modified":"2020-01-01T15:16:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T23:16:00","slug":"january-1-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=9924","title":{"rendered":"January 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:  I went to Goldstream Park this morning, hoping to find an Erannis<\/em>.  I was unsuccessful – I may have left it too late in the season.  However, there were lots of Winter Moths there – mostly occidentalis <\/em> and “dunnos”.    I couldn’t resist photographing a well-patterned one, shown below.  I believe it to be occidentalis<\/em>.  The occidentalis <\/em>“streak” isn’t very obvious, but is best seen (as it often is) when viewed from a distance. There were a number of rather uniform unpatterned grey moths there (one shown below), which could easily be dismissed as just brumata<\/em>.  However, it may be that occidentalis<\/em>, like brumata<\/em>, has an unpatterend form, and, since it was Goldstream Park, and late in the season,  I’d like to keep open the possibility that these unpatterned ones there were occidentalis<\/em>.  I am beginning to suspect that occidentalis<\/em> flies later than brumata<\/em>; that winter moths seen in November are mostly brumata<\/em>, and winter moths seen in January are mostly occidentalis.<\/em>  <\/em>Further observations needed!<\/p>\n

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Operophtera occidentalis <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)   Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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Operophtera <\/em>sp.  (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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   I’ll post the 2019 Butterfly Report separately in another posting later today.  It is in a different computer.<\/p>\n

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   Thank you all who contributed to photographs and sightings in 2019, and to the several  experts who identified many animals for us.  Here’s wishing all a Happy New Decade.<\/p>\n

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2010 January 1a      Jeremy Tatum writes:  I went to Goldstream Park this morning, hoping to find an Erannis.  I was unsuccessful – I may have left it too late in the season.  However, there were lots of Winter Moths there – mostly occidentalis  and “dunnos”.    I couldn’t resist photographing a well-patterned one, shown […]<\/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-9924","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\/9924","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=9924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}