{"id":13338,"date":"2021-03-01T16:42:51","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T00:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13338"},"modified":"2021-03-01T16:50:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T00:50:35","slug":"march-1-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13338","title":{"rendered":"March 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>St David&#8217;s Day, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Mr E sends photographs of a tick and a termite from R.O. Bull Park in North Saanich, February 27.\u00a0 Thanks to Dr. Robbin Lindsay for identifying the tick as an unfed male <strong><em>Ixodes pacificus<\/em><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>The termite identification was slightly tricky.\u00a0 The Families of termites can be distinguished according as to whether there are more than or fewer than 22 antennal segments.\u00a0 Naturally, this one has exactly 22.\u00a0 Nevertheless (writes Jeremy Tatum) Mr E and I believe this to be a dampwood termite <strong><em>Zootermopsis angusticollis<\/em><\/strong><strong> \u2013 <\/strong> supported by finding it in a wet stump. \u00a0\u00a0Termites were at one time in the Order Isoptera, though they are now joined with cockroaches (!) in the Order\u00a0 Blattodea.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 550px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.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\/2021\/03\/pastedImage.png\" width=\"513.6\" height=\"369.79200000000003\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Ixodes pacificus <\/em>(Ixodida:\u00a0 Ixodidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 493px; 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\/2021\/03\/pastedImage-1.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Ixodes pacificus <\/em>(Ixodida:\u00a0 Ixodidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\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\/2021\/03\/pastedImage-2.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Ixodes pacificus <\/em>(Ixodida:\u00a0 Ixodidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 527px; 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\/2021\/03\/pastedImage-3.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Zootermopsis angusticollis<\/em> (Blattodea:\u00a0 Archotermopsidae)\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 436px; 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\/2021\/03\/pastedImage-4.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Zootermopsis angusticollis<\/em> (Blattodea:\u00a0 Archotermopsidae)\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More stuff on the way tomorrow!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St David&#8217;s Day, 2021 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Mr E sends photographs of a tick and a termite from R.O. 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