{"id":13277,"date":"2021-02-18T16:56:26","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T00:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13277"},"modified":"2021-02-19T14:30:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T22:30:13","slug":"february-18-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13277","title":{"rendered":"February 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 February 18<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Ian Cooper sends an unusual photograph of a <strong>harvestman<\/strong> on snow, Colquitz River Park, February 17.\u00a0\u00a0 Dr Philip Bragg writes:\u00a0 I have not seen a harvestman on snow before. I notice that it is keeping its body well away from the snow on its long legs. The photo is not clear enough for a positive identification but I think that it is <strong><em>Platybunus triangularis<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 585px; 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\/2021\/02\/pastedImage-29.png\" width=\"513.6\" height=\"349.42358974358973\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Harvestman, probably <em>Platybunus triangularis <\/em> (Opiliones: Phalangiidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna, sends photographs of spider engaged in Anglo-Saxon attitudes in her Kemp Lake basement, February 17.\u00a0\u00a0 Dr Robb Bennett writes:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hmm, not your usual indoor trashy theridiid. It&#8217;s a linyphiine linyphiid \u2013 always have trouble eyeballing them based on colour patterns: probably either a <em>Neriene<\/em> or <em>Microlinyphia<\/em> but I really don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 514px; 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\/2021\/02\/pastedImage-30.png\" width=\"513.6\" height=\"326.7455252918288\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Probably <em>Neriene<\/em> or <em>Microlinyphia <\/em> (Ara.: Linyphiidae \u2013 Linyphiinae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 532px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/pastedImage-31.png\" width=\"513.6\" height=\"385.2\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Probably <em>Neriene<\/em> or <em>Microlinyphia <\/em> (Ara.: Linyphiidae \u2013 Linyphiinae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 February 18 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper sends an unusual photograph of a harvestman on snow, Colquitz River Park, February 17.\u00a0\u00a0 Dr Philip Bragg writes:\u00a0 I have not seen a harvestman on snow before. I notice that it is keeping its body well away from the snow on its long legs. The photo is not [&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-13277","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\/13277","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=13277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13281,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13277\/revisions\/13281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}