{"id":17073,"date":"2022-10-23T21:40:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T04:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=17073"},"modified":"2022-10-24T16:08:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T23:08:08","slug":"2022-october-23-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=17073","title":{"rendered":"2022 October 23 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 October 23 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Here is a <strong>jumping bristletail <\/strong>photographed by Ian Cooper.\u00a0\u00a0 Jumping bristletails (Order Microcoryphia) are currently considered to be insects \u2013 i.e. to be part of the Class Insecta.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/DSC06496cc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"508\" height=\"512\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Pedetontus <\/em>(possibly<em> saltator<\/em>) (Microcoryphia: \u00a0Machilidae) Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/DSC06492cc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"380\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Pedetontus <\/em>(possibly<em> saltator<\/em>) (Microcoryphia: \u00a0Machilidae) Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Next is a gnatlike insect, which will be a real challenge to identify, even to Family.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 There are, I think, five Families that are possible contenders:<\/p>\n<p>Tipulidae, Trichoceridae, Ptychopteridae, Anisopodidae, Mycetophilidae. \u00a0There are, of course, differences between the Families, but most of these differences require microscopic examination.\u00a0 One clue is to determine whether or not there are three ocelli on the dorsal surface of the head.\u00a0 These are very difficult to see; not only are they tiny, but the insects hold their heads at a most awkward angle for the photographer.\u00a0 Ian Cooper made a special effort to try to photograph the presence or absence of the ocelli. Is the resolution of the close-up photograph below good enough?\u00a0 Is it possible that ocelli are present but not evident in the photograph?\u00a0\u00a0 I think the resolution is sufficiently good to show that ocelli are absent.\u00a0 If so, that reduces the possibilities to Tipulidae and Ptychopteridae.<\/p>\n<p>Some Tipulidae rest with their wings open; others with one wing folded over the other, as in Ian\u2019s photograph.\u00a0 I believe all Ptychopteridae rest with their wings open.\u00a0 Thus we seem to be down to the Tipulidae (Crane Flies). Most of us are familiar with the larger crane flies, such as <em>Tipulia paludosa<\/em>, and Ian\u2019s insect does not resemble these at all.\u00a0 However, the Tipulidae is a large family, with many small members that resemble gnats.\u00a0 All in all, I think it likely that Ian\u2019s insect is a small tipulid \u2013 though I could be wrong!\u00a0 If anyone out there can go further, please let us know.<\/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\/2022\/10\/DSC06482c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"494\" height=\"492\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Diptera \u2013 Nematocera \u00a0(possibly Tipulidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/DSC06483ccs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"388\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Diptera \u2013 Nematocera \u00a0(possibly Tipulidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 October 23 evening \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Here is a jumping bristletail photographed by Ian Cooper.\u00a0\u00a0 Jumping bristletails (Order Microcoryphia) are currently considered to be insects \u2013 i.e. to be part of the Class Insecta. Pedetontus (possibly saltator) (Microcoryphia: \u00a0Machilidae) Ian Cooper Pedetontus (possibly saltator) (Microcoryphia: \u00a0Machilidae) Ian Cooper &nbsp; Next is a gnatlike insect, which will [&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-17073","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\/17073","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=17073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17079,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17073\/revisions\/17079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}