{"id":12759,"date":"2020-11-15T15:24:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T23:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12759"},"modified":"2020-11-15T15:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T23:26:01","slug":"november-15-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12759","title":{"rendered":"November 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2020 November 15<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; On November 9&nbsp; (morning) we posted a picture of a curious creature photographed by Ian Cooper, which I tentatively (and utterly wrongly!) suggested might be a dipluran.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;Further photographs by Ian show the lack of long antennae, and the obvious external mouthparts, either of which &nbsp;which rules out Diplura.&nbsp; It is in fact, as verified by coleopterist Charlene Wood, the larva of a beetle.&nbsp; Charlene needs to see such microscopic   details as the tarsal claws to go further, though she thinks perhaps Carabidae or Staphylinidae.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 593px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"593\" originalheight=\"402\" width=\"513.6\" height=\"348.17403035413156\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pastedImage-56.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Beetle larva (Col.: Staphylindae?&nbsp; Carabidae?)&nbsp; Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 594px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"594\" originalheight=\"397\" width=\"513.6\" height=\"343.2646464646465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pastedImage-57.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Beetle larva (Col.: Staphylindae?&nbsp; Carabidae?)&nbsp; Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy continues:&nbsp;&nbsp; Longtime viewers of this site may recall that I have from time to time questioned the exact identity of our  <strong><em>Erannis <\/em><\/strong>moths.&nbsp; I am still very anxious to pursue this.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t want one to be killed specially for the purpose, but if any viewer finds a dead one (it needn&#8217;t be in excellent condition)  <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">please save the specimen<\/span> for me.&nbsp; They are usually abundant, and dead specimens are sometimes noticed in spider webs, or trapped inside a building.&nbsp; So far this year I haven&#8217;t seen one at all, dead or alive,   but they will surely be apparent in the next couple of weeks or so.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 November 15 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; On November 9&nbsp; (morning) we posted a picture of a curious creature photographed by Ian Cooper, which I tentatively (and utterly wrongly!) suggested might be a dipluran. &nbsp; &nbsp;Further photographs by Ian show the lack of long antennae, and the obvious external mouthparts, either of which &nbsp;which [&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-12759","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\/12759","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=12759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}