{"id":212,"date":"2016-02-23T02:33:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T10:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=212"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:37:57","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:37:57","slug":"february-22-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=212","title":{"rendered":"February 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 21.3px; margin: 0px 0px 1.35em; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;\"><strong style=\"line-height: 21.3px;\">2016 February 22<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 21.3px; margin: 0px 0px 1.35em; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;\"><strong style=\"line-height: 21.3px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>Annie Pang sends a picture of a spider.&nbsp; Thanks to Robb Bennett who writes:&nbsp; I THINK that this spider is&nbsp;<strong style=\"line-height: 21.3px;\"><em style=\"line-height: 21.3px;\">Philodromus dispar<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;&ndash; a philodromid crab spider, sub adult male.&nbsp; Adult males have dark tops bounded by light sides &ndash; you can see the start of the adult colouration in the images.&nbsp; The adult version is quite striking (and quite common around here).&nbsp; An introduced species, from Eurasian origins.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 21.3px; margin: 0px 0px 1.35em; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;\">&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum comments.&nbsp; My understanding, such as it is, is that there are two Families of spiders commonly known as &ldquo;crab spiders&rdquo;.&nbsp; One is Thomisidae &#8211; crab spiders with no further adjectives.&nbsp; This includes the well-known&nbsp;<em style=\"line-height: 21.3px;\">Misumena vatia<\/em>.&nbsp; The other Family is Philodromidae &#8211; often known as &ldquo;running&rdquo; crab spiders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 21.3px; margin: 0px 0px 1.35em; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-211\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/P1330237.jpg\" alt=\"P1330237\" width=\"847\" height=\"784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/P1330237.jpg 847w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/P1330237-300x278.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/P1330237-768x711.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 847px) 100vw, 847px\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"line-height: 21.3px; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center;\">Probably&nbsp;<em style=\"line-height: 21.3px;\">Philodromus dispar&nbsp;<\/em>(Ara.: Philodromidae)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Annie Pang<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2016 February 22 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Annie Pang sends a picture of a spider.&nbsp; Thanks to Robb Bennett who writes:&nbsp; I THINK that this spider is&nbsp;Philodromus dispar&nbsp;&ndash; a philodromid crab spider, sub adult male.&nbsp; Adult males have dark tops bounded by light sides &ndash; you can see the start of the adult colouration in the images.&nbsp; The adult [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","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=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1557,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/1557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}