{"id":3573,"date":"2017-01-06T13:43:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T21:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3573"},"modified":"2017-01-06T13:47:07","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T21:47:07","slug":"january-6-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3573","title":{"rendered":"January 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2017 January 6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>In the January 1 posting I wondered about the difference between the Common Firebrat  <em>Thermobia domestica<\/em> and the Grey Firebrat (also called Grey Silverfish, though it&#8217;s not a true silverfish)  <em>Ctenolepisma longicaudata<\/em>.&nbsp; The former is well-marked and mottled, whereas the latter is uniformly grey.&nbsp; The difficulty with the January 1 animal is that, although it appeared uniformly grey to the unaided eye, in the photograph there is obviously   some mottling, so we need some structural feature to be sure.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Today I took a photograph of what I believe to be <em>Thermobia domestica<\/em>.&nbsp; It is certainly well marked and mottled.&nbsp; I think the structural difference is that the abdomen of  <em>C. longicaudata <\/em>is longer than the head-plus-thorax, whereas the abdomen of  <em>T. domestica<\/em> is shorter.&nbsp; What do you think?&nbsp; Can you see any other differences that might be useful?<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"1200\" originalwidth=\"1246\" name=\"\" title=\"Thermobia.JPG\" height=\"577.0786516853933\" width=\"599.2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Thermobia.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">Common Firebrat  <em>Thermobia domestica <\/em>(Thy.: Lepismatidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; The Large Yellow Underwing caterpillar shown on December 20 pupated last night, and just to keep this site going in the bleak midwinter, here is a photo of its pupa.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"800\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"N pronuba pu.JPG\" height=\"399.4666666666667\" width=\"599.2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/N-pronuba-pu.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\">Large Yellow Underwing  <em>Noctua pronuba <\/em>(Lep.:&nbsp; Noctuidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 January 6 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; In the January 1 posting I wondered about the difference between the Common Firebrat Thermobia domestica and the Grey Firebrat (also called Grey Silverfish, though it&#8217;s not a true silverfish) Ctenolepisma longicaudata.&nbsp; The former is well-marked and mottled, whereas the latter is uniformly grey.&nbsp; The difficulty with the January 1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3573","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\/3573","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=3573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}