{"id":21561,"date":"2024-05-14T21:04:28","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T04:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21561"},"modified":"2024-05-17T07:17:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T14:17:05","slug":"2024-may-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21561","title":{"rendered":"2024 May 14"},"content":{"rendered":"

2024 May 14<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here are more invertebrates that move around our feet mostly unnoticed, except by Ian Cooper who seeks them out with his camera in the nighttime.<\/p>\n

First, a globose springtail.\u00a0 We thank Dr Frans Janssens for confirming Ian\u2019s suggested identification as Ptenothrix maculosa<\/em><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>\"\"Ptenothrix maculosa <\/em>(Coll.:\u00a0 Dicyrtomidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Next, a slug.\u00a0 Robert Forsyth writes:\u00a0 Possibly Arion hortensis<\/em>. But tricky, and confirmation requires a rather difficult (for me) dissection. In the Arion hortensis<\/em> group of species, A. distinctus<\/em> seems to be the common one in BC (or at least around Victoria, when I was doing the needed dissections to determine species properly). But true A. hortensis<\/em> is known in BC.<\/p>\n

\"\"Arion <\/em>sp. (Pul.: Arionidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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\"\"Enoplognatha ovata<\/em>\u00a0(Ara.: Theridiidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Clubiona sp<\/em>. (Ara.: Clubionidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Froghopper (Spittle Bug)\u00a0 (Hem.: Cercopidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Culiseta incidens\u00a0 <\/em>(Dip.: Culicidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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2024 May 14 Here are more invertebrates that move around our feet mostly unnoticed, except by Ian Cooper who seeks them out with his camera in the nighttime. First, a globose springtail.\u00a0 We thank Dr Frans Janssens for confirming Ian\u2019s suggested identification as Ptenothrix maculosa. \u00a0Ptenothrix maculosa (Coll.:\u00a0 Dicyrtomidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper \u00a0\u00a0 Next, a slug.\u00a0 […]<\/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-21561","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\/21561","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=21561"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21586,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21561\/revisions\/21586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}