{"id":12699,"date":"2020-11-09T11:56:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T19:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12699"},"modified":"2020-11-15T14:21:13","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T22:21:13","slug":"november-9-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12699","title":{"rendered":"November 9 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2020 November 9 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Apologies to viewers for a gap in service in the last few days.\u00a0 This was the result of a computer glitch, which is now fixed.<\/p>\n

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More miscellaneous creatures from the ground detritus at Colquitz River Park, by Ian Cooper:<\/p>\n

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Nebria brevicollis <\/em>(Col.: Carabidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 What in the world is the animal below?\u00a0\u00a0 It appears to be (but isn’t!\u00a0 See below!) a two-pronged bristletail<\/strong> \u00a0(Diplura).\u00a0 In modern classifications it is a hexapod but not an insect.\u00a0\u00a0 The divisions of the Hexapoda have undergone some revisions in recent years, and some animals that were formerly included in the Class Insecta are no longer considered to be insects.\u00a0 My present understanding is as follows:<\/p>\n

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Within the Phylum Arthropoda is included the Subphylum Hexapoda.\u00a0 Within the Subphylum Hexapoda are several Classes, which include Insecta, Arachnida, Entognatha.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Each of these Classes are divided into several\u00a0 or (in the case of Insecta) many Orders.<\/p>\n

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The Class Arachnida includes spiders, mites, ticks, harvestmen, scorpions.<\/p>\n

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The situation with regard to springtails and bristletails is now a little complicated, and not all authors agree.<\/p>\n

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Springtails<\/strong> used to belong to the insect Order Collembola.<\/p>\n

The springtails<\/strong> are no longer insects, but they belong \u00a0to Class Entognatha, within which are four\u00a0 Orders of different groups of springtails, namely Entomobryomorpha,\u00a0\u00a0 Symphypleona,<\/p>\n

Poduromorpha, Neelipleona.<\/p>\n

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There used to be three sorts of bristletails<\/strong>, belonging to the insect Orders Thysanura (three-pronged bristletails), \u00a0Diplura (two-pronged bristletails) and Microcoryphia (jumping bristletails).<\/p>\n

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There are now, as before three sorts of bristletails<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0 three-pronged bristletails, two-pronged bristletails, and jumping bristletails, but their classification is a little different that formerly.\u00a0 These used to be respectively the Orders Thysanura<\/strong>, Diplura<\/strong> and Microcoryphia<\/strong> within the Class Insecta.\u00a0\u00a0 The Order names Thysanura and Microcoryphia are no longer supposed to be used, but are replaced by the Order names Zygentoma<\/strong> and Archaeognatha.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Whether the Orders Zygentoma and Archaeognatha remain in the Class Insecta or are in the Class Entognagtha varies with author.\u00a0 The Order Zygentoma <\/strong>(formerly Thysanura) includes the Family Lepismatidae (firebrats and silverfish<\/strong>). The Order Archaeognatha <\/strong>(formerly Microcoryphia) are the jumping bristletails<\/strong>.\u00a0 \u00a0The Diplura<\/strong> are not at all closely related to the other bristletails.\u00a0 Some authors place them as an Order within the Class Entognatha.\u00a0 Others promote them to Class\u00a0 (i.e. of the same rank as Insecta, Arachnidae, Entognagtha).<\/p>\n

Now, after that lengthy learned article about bristletails, it appears that the animal isn’t one after all\u00a0 (though I’ll leave the learned article up in case we do ever get a genuine one).\u00a0 Charlene Wood believes it is a beetle larva, and it is therefore, an insect!\u00a0 Possibly Carabidae or Staphylinidae – she’d need to see a close-up of the tarsal claws to go further!\u00a0 Further photographs of this animal by Ian Cooper, showing the head more clearly, are posted on November 15.<\/p>\n

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Beetle larva (possibly Carabidae or Staphylinidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Large Yellow Underwing Moth Noctua pronuba <\/em> (Lep.: Noctuidae)<\/p>\n

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Maybe more this afternoon…<\/p>\n

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2020 November 9 morning \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Apologies to viewers for a gap in service in the last few days.\u00a0 This was the result of a computer glitch, which is now fixed.   More miscellaneous creatures from the ground detritus at Colquitz River Park, by Ian Cooper:   Nebria brevicollis (Col.: Carabidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy […]<\/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-12699","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\/12699","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=12699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12758,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12699\/revisions\/12758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}