{"id":13493,"date":"2021-03-17T16:29:29","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T23:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13493"},"modified":"2021-03-27T17:53:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T00:53:52","slug":"march-17-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13493","title":{"rendered":"March 17 afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 March 17 afternoon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Scott Gilmore photographed this springtail, <strong><em>Isotoma viridis<\/em><\/strong>, from his backyard in Lantzville yesterday (March 16). \u00a0Frans Janssens confirmed the identity of the beast.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 530px; 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\/03\/pastedImage-83.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Springtail <em>Isotoma viridis <\/em>(Coll.: Isotomidae)\u00a0 Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper writes:\u00a0 Here are some pre-dawn photos from Colquitz River Park and the Galloping Goose trail 9km site, March 16 2021. It got quite chilly that night.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 423px; 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\/03\/pastedImage-84.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Drone Fly <em>Eristalis tenax <\/em>(Dip.: Syrphidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Ian writes:\u00a0 This larva appeared to be feeding on rust-colored lichen growing between the small cracks and crevices in the tree&#8217;s bark. It was tiny.\u00a0 Maybe 6 mm. The bristles on its head look as though they are dusted with what I assume are lichen spores.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Later:\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 This larva was finally identified (see March 26) by Dr David Wagner, Charlene Wood and by Ian himself, as the larva of a soldier beetle (Cantharidae).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 468px; 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\/03\/pastedImage-85.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Soldier beetle larva (Col.: Cantharidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pastedImage-86.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Soldier beetle larva (Col.: Cantharidae)\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_image008.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 March 17 afternoon \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Scott Gilmore photographed this springtail, Isotoma viridis, from his backyard in Lantzville yesterday (March 16). \u00a0Frans Janssens confirmed the identity of the beast. &nbsp; Springtail Isotoma viridis (Coll.: Isotomidae)\u00a0 Scott Gilmore \u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper writes:\u00a0 Here are some pre-dawn photos from Colquitz River Park and the Galloping Goose trail [&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-13493","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\/13493","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=13493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13592,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13493\/revisions\/13592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}