{"id":14959,"date":"2021-09-21T16:30:55","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T23:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14959"},"modified":"2021-09-27T08:51:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T15:51:10","slug":"2021-september-20-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14959","title":{"rendered":"2021 September 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 September 21<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum sends a photograph of a creature found in his bathroom this morning.\u00a0 It belongs to the Order Thysanura (Zygentoma of some authors), Three-pronged Bristletails. \u00a0Taxonomists don\u2019t seem to have settled whether or not they belong in the Class Insecta. The three species most commonly encountered \u00a0indoors are the Firebrat <em>Thermobia domestica<\/em>, the Silverfish <em>Lepisma saccharina<\/em>\u00a0 and the one below, <em>Ctenolepisma longicaudata,<\/em>\u00a0 whose English name varies from\u00a0 author to author. \u00a0Some authors spell the specific names of some or all of them\u00a0 &#8211;<em>um<\/em> rather than \u2013<em>a<\/em>. \u00a0I find that the Firebrat is by far the commonest, followed by <em>C. longicaudata<\/em>.\u00a0 <em>\u00a0<\/em>I have yet to see <em>Lepisma saccharina <\/em>in Victoria.\u00a0 <em>T.domestica<\/em> and <em>C. longicaudata <\/em>\u00a0like warm places;\u00a0 <em>L. saccharina <\/em>prefers cool places.<em>\u00a0 <\/em>\u00a0I keep my apartment fairly warm, which may be why I have yet to see <em>L. saccharina<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_4097.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"668\" height=\"405\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Ctenolepisma longicaudata <\/em>(Thy.: Lepismatidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rob Gowan sends a photograph of a <strong>Goldenrod Crab Spider<\/strong> with a <strong>hover fly<\/strong> victim, in his Fairfield garden, September 19.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"596\" height=\"666\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Misumena vatia <\/em>(Ara.: Thomisidae)\u00a0 with hover fly (Dip.: Syrphidae) victim\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rob Gowan<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rob also sends a photograph of a <strong>Variegated Meadowhawk <\/strong>seen at the East Sooke Park hawk watch, September 20.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Variegated-Meadowhawk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"686\" height=\"452\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Variegated Meadowhawk <em>Sympetrum corruptum <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Rob Gowan<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 September 21 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum sends a photograph of a creature found in his bathroom this morning.\u00a0 It belongs to the Order Thysanura (Zygentoma of some authors), Three-pronged Bristletails. \u00a0Taxonomists don\u2019t seem to have settled whether or not they belong in the Class Insecta. 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