{"id":176,"date":"2015-11-29T02:30:24","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T10:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=176"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:37:58","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:37:58","slug":"november-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"November 28"},"content":{"rendered":"

2015 November 28<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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   <\/span><\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:  Here’s a Firebrat<\/strong> from my Saanich apartment building – mercifully not from my own suite, from where Marlin Smyth expelled them earlier this year.<\/span><\/p>\n

  Are these animals insects?  They certainly used to be thought of as insects, but I believe that in recent years they have been expelled from the Class Insecta.  There are taxonomic changes every year, but it is my understanding that the Phylum Arthropoda now includes a Subphylum Hexapoda, which in turn includes two Classes, Insecta and Entognatha.  Several Orders of primitively wingless creatures<\/span> – including the Order Thyatira (to which the Firebrat belongs) – now comprise the new Class Entognatha.  Thus the Firebrat is no longer an insect. It is a hexapod, and it is an entognath.<\/span><\/p>\n

  It is often called a “silverfish”.  Is this correct?   I suppose that you could call any member of the entognath Family Lepismatidae a “silverfish”, provided you spelled it with a small s and you intended the word to cover any lepismatid.  But “the” Silverfish, with a capital S, is a distinct species from the Firebrat – and I have not yet encountered it in my building.  It is probably best to call a Firebrat a Firebrat and a Silverfish a Silverfish.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Firebrat Thermobia domestica <\/em>(Thy.: Lepismatidae)  Jeremy Tatum<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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