{"id":12862,"date":"2020-11-29T14:36:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T22:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12862"},"modified":"2020-11-29T14:46:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T22:46:00","slug":"november-29-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12862","title":{"rendered":"November 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2020 November 29<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Photographs from Colquitz River Park last night by Ian Cooper.&nbsp; Thanks to Dr Robb&nbsp; Bennett for the spider identifications.&nbsp; Dr Bennett writes&nbsp; that the first is a species of  <em>Cybaeus<\/em> &#8211; almost certainly<strong><em> Cybaeus<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>signifer<\/em><\/strong>. A mature female.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 524px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"524\" originalheight=\"460\" width=\"513.6\" height=\"450.8702290076336\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pastedImage-103.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Cybaeus signifer <\/em>(Ara.: Cybaeidae)&nbsp; Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The second, he writes, is a theridiid cobweb spider in the broad genus concept of  <em>Theridion<\/em> (i.e., possibly a member of one of the many genera that have more or less recently been split off from  <em>Theridion.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 469px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"469\" originalheight=\"440\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pastedImage-104.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Theridion <\/em>(<em>sensu lato<\/em>) (Ara.: Theridiidae)&nbsp; Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 482px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"482\" originalheight=\"472\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pastedImage-105.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Harvestman (Opiliones)&nbsp; Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 497px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"497\" originalheight=\"388\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pastedImage-106.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Ambigolimax valentianus <\/em>(Pul.: Limacidae<em>)<\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em> Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;   <\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 534px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image010.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"534\" originalheight=\"428\" width=\"513.6\" height=\"411.6494382022472\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pastedImage-107.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Oniscus asellus <\/em>(Isopoda:&nbsp; Oniscidae) Ian Cooper  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum speculates:&nbsp; This individual doesn&#8217;t look quite typical.&nbsp; I wonder if it has just undergone ecdysis.&nbsp; Or maybe a different species?<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 November 29 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Photographs from Colquitz River Park last night by Ian Cooper.&nbsp; Thanks to Dr Robb&nbsp; Bennett for the spider identifications.&nbsp; Dr Bennett writes&nbsp; that the first is a species of Cybaeus &#8211; almost certainly Cybaeus signifer. A mature female. &nbsp; Cybaeus signifer (Ara.: Cybaeidae)&nbsp; Ian Cooper &nbsp; The second, he writes, [&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-12862","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\/12862","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=12862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}