{"id":13560,"date":"2021-03-24T11:41:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T18:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13560"},"modified":"2021-03-24T11:46:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T18:46:26","slug":"march-24-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13560","title":{"rendered":"March 24 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 March 24 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Mr E sends a photograph of the creature below running rapidly just outside his doorstep.&nbsp; I thought it was going to be a difficult creature to identify, writes Jeremy Tatum, but I sent it to two beetle enthusiasts, Charlene Wood and Scott   Gilmore, who had no difficulty in identifying it immediately as the larva of the snail-eating ground beetle  <strong><em>Staphinotus <\/em><\/strong><strong>sp.,<\/strong> probably <em>S. angusticollis<\/em>, whose adult form has appeared several times on this site, most recently just two days ago (March 22).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 519px; 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=\"518\" originalheight=\"421\" width=\"513.6\" height=\"417.42393822393825\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pastedImage-126.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Staphinotus <\/em>(probably <em>angusticollis<\/em>)&nbsp; (Col.: Carabidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Mr E<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Here is another fine portrait of a globose springtail, kindly identified for us by Dr Frans Janssens in Antwerp.&nbsp; &nbsp;To aid in its identification (there are lots of similar species!), Frans writes:&nbsp; Note the striped butt patch in the shape of a small Christmas   tree.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; It&#8217;s good to learn all these technical terms such as &#8220;butt&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 411px; 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=\"411\" originalheight=\"318\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pastedImage-127.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Dicyrtomina minuta<\/em> f.<em> saundersi<\/em><em>&nbsp;  <\/em>(Coll.: Dicyrtominidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 March 24 morning &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Mr E sends a photograph of the creature below running rapidly just outside his doorstep.&nbsp; I thought it was going to be a difficult creature to identify, writes Jeremy Tatum, but I sent it to two beetle enthusiasts, Charlene Wood and Scott Gilmore, who had no difficulty in identifying [&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-13560","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\/13560","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=13560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}