{"id":13062,"date":"2020-12-31T16:20:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T00:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13062"},"modified":"2021-03-12T14:26:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T22:26:28","slug":"december-30-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13062","title":{"rendered":"December 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2020 December 31<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Another interesting collection from Ian Cooper from the Colquitz River Park or from the Galloping Goose trail.\u00a0\u00a0 We start with a large (2 mm) mite, identified as a <strong>snout mite<\/strong> (<strong>Bdellidae) <\/strong>by Dr Heather Proctor:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 443px; 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\/12\/pastedImage-107.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Snout mite (Acari:\u00a0 Bdellidae) Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 543px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.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\/12\/pastedImage-108.png\" width=\"496.8\" height=\"375.11602209944755\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Springtail \u00a0<em>Orchesella villosa<\/em> (Coll.: Orchesellidae)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 509px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.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\/12\/pastedImage-109.png\" width=\"496.8\" height=\"455.80667976424365\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Deroceras reticulatum<\/em> (Pul.: Agriolimacidae) Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 523px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image008.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\/12\/pastedImage-110.png\" width=\"496.8\" height=\"436.9560229445507\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Limax maximus <\/em>(Pul.: Limacidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 499px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image010.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\/12\/pastedImage-111.png\" width=\"496.8\" height=\"518.703006012024\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Cybaeus <\/em>(probably <em>signifer<\/em>). (Ara.: Cybaeidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Thanks to Dr Robb Bennett for the identifcation.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 515px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image012.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\/12\/pastedImage-112.png\" width=\"496.8\" height=\"405.1572815533981\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Cybaeus <\/em>(probably <em>signifer<\/em>). (Ara.: Cybaeidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 476px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image014.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\/12\/pastedImage-113.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Pimoa altioculata <\/em>(Ara.: Pimoidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ll try and identify the spider below \u2013 but it&#8217;s too nice to miss!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 490px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image016.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\/12\/pastedImage-114.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Orb weaver spider\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 December 31 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Another interesting collection from Ian Cooper from the Colquitz River Park or from the Galloping Goose trail.\u00a0\u00a0 We start with a large (2 mm) mite, identified as a snout mite (Bdellidae) by Dr Heather Proctor: &nbsp; Snout mite (Acari:\u00a0 Bdellidae) Ian Cooper \u00a0Springtail \u00a0Orchesella villosa (Coll.: Orchesellidae) Deroceras reticulatum (Pul.: [&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-13062","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\/13062","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=13062"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13444,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13062\/revisions\/13444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}