{"id":12573,"date":"2020-10-21T17:01:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T00:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12573"},"modified":"2020-10-21T17:06:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T00:06:09","slug":"october-21-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12573","title":{"rendered":"October 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2020 October 21<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Ian Cooper has recently been photographing a nematoceran fly at Colquitz River Park. Here are three of his photographs.&nbsp; I am not certain (writes Jeremy Tatum) whether they are all the same species.&nbsp; The first two have a pronounced pattern   on the wing, which I can&#8217;t see on the third photograph, although that may be because of the strongly reflected light.&nbsp; I have been thinking either Limoniinae (sometimes regarded as a full Family, Limoniidae, sometimes treated as a Subfamily of Tipulidae) or   Trichoceridae (Winter Gnats).&nbsp;&nbsp; The insect in the third photograph below clearly has three ocelli on the top of its head.&nbsp; I think that rules out Tipulidae, and so makes it  <strong>Trichoceridae<\/strong>, a <strong>Winter Gnat<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" style=\"width:435px; margin:5px\" src=\"\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/pastedImage-104.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Tipulidae-Limoniinae?&nbsp;&nbsp; Trichoceridae?&nbsp;&nbsp; Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" style=\"width:424px; margin:5px\" src=\"\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/pastedImage-105.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Tipulidae-Limoniinae?&nbsp;&nbsp; Trichoceridae?&nbsp;&nbsp; Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" style=\"width:463px; margin:5px\" src=\"\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/pastedImage-106.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Probably Trichoceridae&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" style=\"width:489px; margin:5px\" src=\"\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/pastedImage-107.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Male Common Earwig&nbsp; <em>Forficula auricularia <\/em>(Derm.: Forficulidae)&nbsp; Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" style=\"width:527px; margin:5px\" src=\"\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" width=\"512.8\" height=\"418.41366223908915\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/pastedImage-108.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><em>Porcellio scaber <\/em>(Isopoda:&nbsp; Porcellionidae)&nbsp; Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" style=\"width:491px; margin:5px\" src=\"\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/pastedImage-109.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Dark-bodied Glass Snail<em> Oxychilus draparnaudi <\/em>  (Pul.: Daubebariidae) &nbsp;Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 October 21 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Ian Cooper has recently been photographing a nematoceran fly at Colquitz River Park. Here are three of his photographs.&nbsp; I am not certain (writes Jeremy Tatum) whether they are all the same species.&nbsp; The first two have a pronounced pattern on the wing, which I can&#8217;t see on the third [&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-12573","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\/12573","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=12573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}