{"id":21445,"date":"2024-05-06T19:49:31","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T02:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21445"},"modified":"2024-05-06T19:49:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T02:49:31","slug":"2024-may-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21445","title":{"rendered":"2024 May 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2024 May 6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ian Cooper sends a photograph of a <strong>crane fly<\/strong> at Colquitz River Park.<strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Ian writes:<strong>\u00a0 I <\/strong>came across this fascinating scene of a crane fly with its mouth parts directly on a leaf&#8217;s damp surface, apparently seeking to draw moisture from it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21442 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/crane-fly-300x269.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/crane-fly-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/crane-fly-1024x919.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/crane-fly-768x689.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/crane-fly.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/>Crane fly\u00a0 (Dip.: Tipulidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Earthworms are apparently preyed upon not only by Robins.\u00a0 Yesterday we showed one of Ian\u2019s pictures of an earthworm apparently being dragged out of its burrow by a beetle.\u00a0 Today we show Ian\u2019s pictures of one apparently being eaten alive at one end by a harvestman.\u00a0\u00a0 Dr Philip Bragg writes:\u00a0 The harvestmen are <em>Protolophus<\/em> species. Only <em>P. niger<\/em> has been named in BC. This does not look like <em>P.<\/em> <em>niger<\/em>, which is a very dark-looking harvestman. The genus <em>Protolophus<\/em> is in need of revision. Harvestmen are known to attack earthworms. The digestive enzymes from the harvestman are really beginning to digest the worm. I do not know how the harvestman subdued the worm since they do not possess poison glands.\u00a0 Please congratulate Ian for these excellent clear, detailed photos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21443 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/harvest-worm-300x265.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"566\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/harvest-worm-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/harvest-worm-1024x905.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/harvest-worm-768x678.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/harvest-worm.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px\" \/>Harvestman <em>Protolophus <\/em>sp. (Opiliones: Protolophidae)\u00a0 with earthworm.\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21444 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/harvest-300x271.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/harvest-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/harvest-1024x924.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/harvest-768x693.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/harvest.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/>Harvestman <em>Protolophus <\/em>sp. (Opiliones: Protolophidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 May 6 Ian Cooper sends a photograph of a crane fly at Colquitz River Park.\u00a0 Ian writes:\u00a0 I came across this fascinating scene of a crane fly with its mouth parts directly on a leaf&#8217;s damp surface, apparently seeking to draw moisture from it. &nbsp; Crane fly\u00a0 (Dip.: Tipulidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper &nbsp; Earthworms are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21445","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\/21445","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21447,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21445\/revisions\/21447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}