{"id":13563,"date":"2021-03-24T16:22:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T23:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13563"},"modified":"2021-03-24T16:26:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T23:26:02","slug":"march-24-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13563","title":{"rendered":"March 24 afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   <\/strong>It is about time we had some earthworms on this invertebrate site – after all, I’m pretty sure they’re invertebrates!<\/p>\n

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   Here are two from Colquitz River Park photographed by Ian Cooper.  Unfortunately, we don’t know anyone who can identify earthworms – if anyone can help, do let us know.  I believe the usual earthworm to be found in the Victoria area is the European species Lumbricus terrestris<\/em>, and the first photograph below, of a pair in cop.<\/em> might possibly be this species.  On the other hand, Ian points out that they also bear a close resemblance to the native Arctiostrotus vancouverensis<\/em>.   The second (and the third, which is a close-up of the same individual) looks like a different species – perhaps one of our native earthworms.  But who knows?<\/p>\n

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Unidentified earthworms (Oligochaeta)   Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Unidentified earthworm (Oligochaeta)   Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Unidentified earthworm (Oligochaeta)   Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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   It is spring, and it seems that earthworms are not the only creatures with that in mind:<\/p>\n

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Probably Deroceras reticulatum<\/em> (Pul.: Agriolimacidae) Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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We don’t know what this next slug is:<\/p>\n

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Unidentified slug (Pulmonata)   Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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  Ian Cooper writes that this is a woodlouse of sorts, but its very rounded, ‘dome like’ form does not appear to be Porcellio scaber<\/em> or Oniscus asellus<\/em>; it might possibly be a Common Pill Woodlouse – Armadillidium vulgare<\/em>.  <\/p>\n

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Possibly a Common Pill Woodlouse – Armadillidium vulgare<\/em> (Isopoda:  Armidillidiidae)<\/p>\n

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2021 March 24 afternoon      It is about time we had some earthworms on this invertebrate site – after all, I’m pretty sure they’re invertebrates!    Here are two from Colquitz River Park photographed by Ian Cooper.  Unfortunately, we don’t know anyone who can identify earthworms – if anyone can help, do let us […]<\/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-13563","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\/13563","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=13563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}