{"id":3698,"date":"2017-03-03T08:17:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T16:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3698"},"modified":"2017-04-03T10:52:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T17:52:56","slug":"march-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3698","title":{"rendered":"March 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2017 March 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>We are grateful to Charlene Wood for identifying the \u00a0<strong>Flat Brown Scavenger<\/strong> B<strong>eetle\u00a0 <\/strong> photographed by Ian Cruickshank on Sidney Island on February 22.\u00a0\u00a0 Charlene writes:\u00a0 By the large hairy pads on the tips of the forelegs, it appears to be a male.\u00a0 Adults are scavengers of decaying organic material and are found in moist cool ares of the Pacific Northwest, from Alaska to California.\u00a0 Luckily the photograph was clear enough to see some characteristics that helped with determination, including the number of segments on the hind tarsus (5) and the antennae with 5 terminal segments widened and the first and third antenna segments lengthened.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"beetle.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/beetle.jpg\" width=\"514.4\" height=\"436.38266666666664\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Necrophilus hydrophiloides\u00a0<\/em>(Col.: Agyrtidae) \u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cruickshank<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 March 3 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 We are grateful to Charlene Wood for identifying the \u00a0Flat Brown Scavenger Beetle\u00a0 photographed by Ian Cruickshank on Sidney Island on February 22.\u00a0\u00a0 Charlene writes:\u00a0 By the large hairy pads on the tips of the forelegs, it appears to be a male.\u00a0 Adults are scavengers of decaying organic material and [&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-3698","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\/3698","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=3698"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3810,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3698\/revisions\/3810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}