{"id":1334,"date":"2015-03-17T22:01:45","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T05:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=1334"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:38:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:38:10","slug":"march-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=1334","title":{"rendered":"March 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><html> <head> <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=iso-8859-1\"> <\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" style=\"display:none\"><!--P{margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} --><\/style>\n<p> <\/head> <body dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-size:12pt;color:#000000;background-color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"> <\/p>\n<p><strong>2015 March 17<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I remarked to Scott Gilmore that some of the beetles in his photographs in yesterday&#8217;s posting were probably quite small beetles.&nbsp; Scott replies, confirming this, and sending an even smaller one!&nbsp; &#8211;&nbsp; &#8220;You  are right &#8211; some of those beetles were very small. 3-4 mm in length for many of them. They do get smaller. I have attached a picture of a member of the&nbsp;<strong><em>Melanophthalma <\/em><\/strong>genus (from the&nbsp;Family Latridiidae &#8211; <strong>Minute Brown Scavenger Beetles<\/strong>). My son and I found that on a Douglas Fir branch on March 13th and it was only 1.7mm long. I know beetles get even smaller but I am yet to find any of those.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 549px;\" hasheight=\"false\" setwidth=\"549\" setheight=\"549\" originalheight=\"617\" originalwidth=\"617\" name=\"\" title=\"Melanophthalma.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image5508a44ae69ef.jpeg\"><br \/> <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Melanophthalma <\/em>sp. (Col.: Latridiidae) Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/body> <\/html> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 March 17 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I remarked to Scott Gilmore that some of the beetles in his photographs in yesterday&#8217;s posting were probably quite small beetles.&nbsp; Scott replies, confirming this, and sending an even smaller one!&nbsp; &#8211;&nbsp; &#8220;You are right &#8211; some of those beetles were very small. 3-4 mm in length [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334","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=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1766,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions\/1766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}