{"id":3670,"date":"2017-02-20T07:51:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T15:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3670"},"modified":"2017-02-20T15:56:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T23:56:30","slug":"february-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3670","title":{"rendered":"February 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2017 February 20<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Rosemary Jorna found this snail at Kemp Lake Road, February 21.&nbsp; It should be possible to identify the snail.&nbsp; Suggestions, anyone?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"900\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"snail2.jpg\" height=\"449.40000000000003\" width=\"599.2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/snail2.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\">Snail &#8211; for identification someone, please?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Rosemary writes that, a metre from the live snail, she came across three shells close together all open in the same way.&nbsp; She asks what would bring them to one spot and eat them in such a manner.&nbsp; I wonder if they were broken by a crow or a gull dropping   them from a height.&nbsp; But then you wouldn&#8217;t expect to find three close together.&nbsp; Ideas, anyone? &nbsp;Identification of the snail, anyone?&nbsp;&nbsp; It looks like a different species to me from the one above.&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"918\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"broken shell.jpg\" height=\"458.38800000000003\" width=\"599.2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/broken-shell.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\">Broken snail shell.&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Another snail photographed by Rosemary is this tiny, tiny <em>Vertigo <\/em>  snail on a maple tree.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"897\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"vertigo2.jpg\" height=\"447.90200000000004\" width=\"599.2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/vertigo2.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<em>Vertigo <\/em>snail (Pul.: Vertiginidae)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And lastly, a small moth:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"900\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"Alucita2.jpg\" height=\"449.40000000000003\" width=\"599.2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Alucita2.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_image008.jpg\"><em>Alucita  <\/em><em>montana<\/em><em>&nbsp; <\/em>(Lep.: Alucitidae)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna<\/div>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 February 20 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna found this snail at Kemp Lake Road, February 21.&nbsp; It should be possible to identify the snail.&nbsp; Suggestions, anyone? &nbsp; Snail &#8211; for identification someone, please?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Rosemary writes that, a metre from the live snail, she came across three shells close together all open [&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-3670","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\/3670","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=3670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}