{"id":13088,"date":"2021-01-04T15:30:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T23:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13088"},"modified":"2021-01-04T15:36:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T23:36:51","slug":"january-4-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13088","title":{"rendered":"January 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 January 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Ian Cooper continues with his efforts to find strange creatures of which many of us are unaware by searching along the Galloping Goose trail in pouring rain in the middle of the night.&nbsp; Here is a strange, flat Bark Crab Spider, identified   by Ian and confirmed by Dr Robb Bennett, as <strong><em>Bassaniana utahensis<\/em><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;  <\/strong>Dare I say it &#8211; although it may look fierce, its Bark is worse than its Bite.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 483px; 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=\"483\" originalheight=\"433\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/pastedImage-2.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Bassaniana utahensis <\/em>(Ara.: Thomisidae)&nbsp; Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 549px; 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=\"549\" originalheight=\"458\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/pastedImage-3.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Bassaniana utahensis <\/em>(Ara.: Thomisidae)&nbsp; Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 550px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"550\" originalheight=\"477\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/pastedImage-4.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Bassaniana utahensis <\/em>(Ara.: Thomisidae)&nbsp; Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 556px; 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=\"556\" originalheight=\"481\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/pastedImage-5.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Bassaniana utahensis <\/em>(Ara.: Thomisidae)&nbsp; Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Also found by Ian, another <strong>snout mite:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 273px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image010.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"273\" originalheight=\"258\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/pastedImage-6.png\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Snout mite (Acari.: Bdellidae) &nbsp;Ian Cooper  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 January 4 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ian Cooper continues with his efforts to find strange creatures of which many of us are unaware by searching along the Galloping Goose trail in pouring rain in the middle of the night.&nbsp; 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