{"id":17416,"date":"2023-01-06T16:22:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T00:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=17416"},"modified":"2023-01-06T16:46:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T00:46:44","slug":"2023-january-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=17416","title":{"rendered":"2023 January 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\"><b>2023 January 6<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">In response to my remarks (January 4) concerning the relative paucity of invertebrates to be found in the dull, dark days of January, Ian Cooper writes:\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;You&#8217;ve got to be kidding! There is no shortage of critters around for anyone willing to take a closer look.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 He sends a small sample of what he found on January 5 at Colquitz River Park in Saanich and the Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal.\u00a0 The identities given in the labels below are tentative; if anyone can do better with them, please do let us know.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-4.png\" alt=\"image.png\" width=\"414\" height=\"385\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><i><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">Cybaeus <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">sp.: (Ara.: Cybaeidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-5.png\" alt=\"image.png\" width=\"414\" height=\"380\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><i><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">Cybaeus <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">sp.: (Ara.: Cybaeidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-6.png\" alt=\"image.png\" width=\"414\" height=\"326\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">Linyphiid spider (Ara.: Linyphiidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-7.png\" alt=\"image.png\" width=\"414\" height=\"344\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">Linyphiid spider, probably <i>Neriene <\/i>sp. \u00a0(Ara.: Linyphiidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-8.png\" alt=\"image.png\" width=\"414\" height=\"323\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">Possibly <i>Pimoa <\/i>sp.? (Ara.: Pimoidae) Ian Cooper<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Ian describes the next one as a<\/span>n incredibly tiny harvestman. Maybe 3mm across, including legs!<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-9.png\" alt=\"image.png\" width=\"414\" height=\"397\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">Harvestman (Opiliones)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-10.png\" alt=\"image.png\" width=\"414\" height=\"310\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">Globose springtail, probably <\/span><i>Ptenothrix <\/i>sp. 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There is no shortage of critters around for anyone willing to take a closer look.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 He sends a small [&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-17416","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\/17416","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=17416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17425,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17416\/revisions\/17425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}