{"id":12781,"date":"2020-11-19T16:12:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T00:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12781"},"modified":"2020-11-24T10:58:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T18:58:05","slug":"november-19-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12781","title":{"rendered":"November 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2020 November 19<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Slugs from Colquitz River Park, photographed by Ian Cooper:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 510px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pastedImage-68.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Two slugs (see below)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 We are grateful to Dr Robert Forsyth for identifying the smaller of these two slugs as <strong><em>Ambigolimax valentianus <\/em><\/strong>(Pul.: Limacidae) &#8211; formerly known as <em>Lehmannia valentiana, <\/em>(and formerly, admits Jeremy Tatum, labelled wrongly on this site as something quite different!)<\/p>\n<p>The larger one might possibly be <em>Limax maximus, <\/em>but is too much in shadow to be certain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 528px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pastedImage-69.png\" width=\"513.6\" height=\"421.9901328273245\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Limax maximus <\/em>(Pul.: Limacidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Variously known as the Giant Garden Slug, Great Grey Slug, Leopard Slug.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 November 19 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Slugs from Colquitz River Park, photographed by Ian Cooper: &nbsp; Two slugs (see below)\u00a0 Ian Cooper \u00a0\u00a0 We are grateful to Dr Robert Forsyth for identifying the smaller of these two slugs as Ambigolimax valentianus (Pul.: Limacidae) &#8211; formerly known as Lehmannia valentiana, (and formerly, admits Jeremy Tatum, labelled wrongly [&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-12781","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\/12781","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=12781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12829,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12781\/revisions\/12829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}