{"id":24458,"date":"2025-01-02T20:03:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T04:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=24458"},"modified":"2025-01-02T20:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T04:04:12","slug":"2025-january-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=24458","title":{"rendered":"2025 January 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2025 January 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ian Cooper sends pictures from Colquitz River Park, taken shortly before and after midnight January 1\/2.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24450 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/11114391c-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"618\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/11114391c-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/11114391c-1024x764.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/11114391c-768x573.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/11114391c.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/strong>Elongate-bodied springtail, <em>Tomocerus sp.<\/em>\u00a0(Coll.: Tomoceridae)\u00a0\u00a0Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24451 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/11114406R-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/11114406R-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/11114406R-1024x711.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/11114406R-768x533.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/11114406R.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/strong>Large Yellow Underwing Moth\u00a0 <em>Noctua pronuba<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0\u00a0Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24452 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/11114423c-300x276.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/11114423c-300x276.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/11114423c-1024x942.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/11114423c-768x707.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/11114423c.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><\/strong>Dark-bodied Glass Snail \u00a0<em>Oxychilus draparnaudi<\/em>\u00a0(Pul.: Daubebariidae)\u00a0\u00a0Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24455 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/11114444c-300x281.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/11114444c-300x281.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/11114444c-1024x957.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/11114444c-768x718.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/11114444c.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/strong>Probably European Fire Ant\u00a0 <em>Myrmica rubra<\/em>\u00a0 (Hym.: Formicidae)\u00a0\u00a0Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24454 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/11114437c-300x264.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"565\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/11114437c-300x264.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/11114437c-1024x899.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/11114437c-768x675.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/11114437c.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/strong>Harvestman\u00a0 <em>Protolophus <\/em>sp<em>.<\/em>\u00a0(Opiliones: Protolophidae) \u00a0\u00a0Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 We have probably drawn attention before to that, in harvestmen, the second pair of legs is usually the longest.\u00a0 That is particularly obvious in the above specimen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24453 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/11114429cs-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"573\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/11114429cs-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/11114429cs-1024x726.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/11114429cs-768x545.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/11114429cs.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\" \/><\/strong>Unidentified male linyphiid spider (Ara.: Linyphiidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025 January 2 Ian Cooper sends pictures from Colquitz River Park, taken shortly before and after midnight January 1\/2. Elongate-bodied springtail, Tomocerus sp.\u00a0(Coll.: Tomoceridae)\u00a0\u00a0Ian Cooper Large Yellow Underwing Moth\u00a0 Noctua pronuba\u00a0\u00a0(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0\u00a0Ian Cooper \u00a0 Dark-bodied Glass Snail \u00a0Oxychilus draparnaudi\u00a0(Pul.: Daubebariidae)\u00a0\u00a0Ian Cooper \u00a0 Probably European Fire Ant\u00a0 Myrmica rubra\u00a0 (Hym.: Formicidae)\u00a0\u00a0Ian Cooper \u00a0 Harvestman\u00a0 Protolophus sp.\u00a0(Opiliones: [&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-24458","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\/24458","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=24458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24460,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24458\/revisions\/24460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}