{"id":3616,"date":"2017-02-07T02:25:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T10:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3616"},"modified":"2017-02-07T10:29:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T18:29:43","slug":"february-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3616","title":{"rendered":"February 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2017 February 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp; <\/strong>Rosemary Jorna sends pictures of a <strong>harvestman<\/strong> from Kemp Lake Road, Otter Point, February 2.&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes: I thought it looked a little different from the usual European  <em>Phalangium opilio<\/em>, so I sent the photographs to Dr Philip Bragg of the University of British Columbia.&nbsp; While he can&#8217;t be certain without seeing the actual specimen, he believes it is a native species of  <strong><em>Leiobunum<\/em><\/strong>.<strong>&nbsp; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"900\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"harvestman2.jpg\" height=\"449.40000000000003\" width=\"599.2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/harvestman2.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Harvestman.&nbsp; Probably <em>Leiobunum <\/em>sp. (Opiliones:&nbsp; Sclerosomatidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"900\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"harvestman1.jpg\" height=\"449.40000000000003\" width=\"599.2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/harvestman1.jpg\">&nbsp;<\/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\">Harvestman.&nbsp; Probably  <em>Leiobunum <\/em>sp. (Opiliones:&nbsp; Sclerosomatidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; There is to be a TV program on &#8220;The Wild World of Insects Inside Homes&#8221; on Channel Shaw 2 = Telus 100, at 8:00 pm on Thursday February 9.&nbsp; This should be of interest to invertebrate enthusiasts.&nbsp;&nbsp; You may have noticed a photograph of a spider on the front   cover of this week&#8217;s <em>TV Scene<\/em>.&nbsp; Robb Bennett tells me that the spider is possibly a species of  <em>Cheiracanthium <\/em>(Eutichuridae), often common in homes, but more so in eastern Canada than here on the west coast.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 February 7 &nbsp; &nbsp; Rosemary Jorna sends pictures of a harvestman from Kemp Lake Road, Otter Point, February 2.&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes: I thought it looked a little different from the usual European Phalangium opilio, so I sent the photographs to Dr Philip Bragg of the University of British Columbia.&nbsp; While he can&#8217;t be [&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-3616","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\/3616","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=3616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}