{"id":11592,"date":"2020-07-23T10:30:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T17:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11592"},"modified":"2020-07-23T10:39:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T17:39:56","slug":"july-23-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11592","title":{"rendered":"July 23 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2020 July 23 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Val George writes:\u00a0 July 22, I saw my first <strong>Pine Whites<\/strong> of the year.\u00a0 There were 6 or 7 flying around the tops of a Douglas Fir stand at Witty&#8217;s Lagoon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Scott Gilmore got these photos of a water mite from Battleship Lake in Strathcona Provincial Park on the 20<sup>th<\/sup> July.\u00a0\u00a0 Dr Heather Proctor tells us that it is in the Superfamily <strong>Hygrobatoidea<\/strong>, and probably in the Family <strong>Pionidae<\/strong>, and possibly genus <strong><em>Piona<\/em><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>In order to be more certain, she would need to see the genital plates, which might be visible in a ventral view, but are often obscured by other internal organs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Invert Alert has had very few photographs of aquatic invertebrates.\u00a0 We hope more photographers will rise to the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"\" style=\"width: 459px; margin: 5px;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pastedImage-196.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Possibly <em>Piona <\/em>(Acari: Pionidae)\u00a0 Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pastedImage-197.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Possibly <em>Piona <\/em>(Acari: Pionidae)\u00a0 Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"\" style=\"width: 506px; margin: 5px;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pastedImage-198.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Possibly <em>Piona <\/em>(Acari: Pionidae)\u00a0 Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 July 23 morning \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Val George writes:\u00a0 July 22, I saw my first Pine Whites of the year.\u00a0 There were 6 or 7 flying around the tops of a Douglas Fir stand at Witty&#8217;s Lagoon. &nbsp; Scott Gilmore got these photos of a water mite from Battleship Lake in Strathcona Provincial Park on [&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-11592","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\/11592","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=11592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11597,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11592\/revisions\/11597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}