{"id":3746,"date":"2017-03-19T05:51:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T12:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3746"},"modified":"2017-03-23T15:17:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T22:17:28","slug":"march-19-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3746","title":{"rendered":"March 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2016 March 19<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Rosemary Jorna sends an interesting sequence of snail photographs from her garden in Metchosin. She found this 2 \u00bd cm snail under the leaves in her flower bed, March 17.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"snailshell1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/snailshell1.jpg\" width=\"683.2\" height=\"512.4\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Tentatively <em>Haplotrema vancouverense <\/em>(Pul.: Haplotrematidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 She picked it up to see if the shell was occupied.\u00a0 It was &#8211; but not by its rightful owner!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"snailinsnail2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/snailinsnail2.jpg\" width=\"683.2\" height=\"512.4\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Tentatively <em>Haplotrema vancouverense <\/em>(Pul.: Haplotrematidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>Rosemary waited a while to see if the interloper would come out.\u00a0 Eventually, it did:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"snail3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/snail3.jpg\" width=\"683.2\" height=\"471.9773333333334\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Tentatively <em>Haplotrema vancouverense <\/em>(Pul.: Haplotrematidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0 It did a little bit of damage to the larger shell when it came out &#8211; not through the front door!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"snailshell4.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/snailshell4.jpg\" width=\"683.2\" height=\"512.4\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Tentatively <em>Haplotrema vancouverense <\/em>(Pul.: Haplotrematidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Rosemary tentatively identifies both of the snails as the <strong>Robust Lancetooth <\/strong><strong><em>Haplotrema vancouverense<\/em><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>[Agreed &#8211; Jeremy] Although the body of this snail is typically whitish, Rosemary tells me that dark-bodied forms exist.\u00a0 The Robust Lancetooth may\u00a0look\u00a0sweet,\u00a0but is predatory on other animals, such as, according to Robert Forsyth, earthworms, slugs and snails, including their own species.\u00a0 Whether the smaller one had assassinated and cannibalized the larger one, or had merely found temporary shelter in an empty shell, we leave to the imagination of the viewer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nathan Fisk found the little moth below fluttering among the Siberian Miners\u2019 Lettuce yesterday (March18) afternoon in the learning meadow at Fort Rodd Hill.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum responds:\u00a0 This is a rather a worn specimen of\u00a0 <strong><em>Hydriomena nubilofasciata<\/em><\/strong><em>, <\/em>the <strong>Oak Winter Highflyer<\/strong><em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Moths of the genus <em>Hydriomena\u00a0<\/em>are\u00a0called \u201chighflyers\u201d, though I don\u2019t think they all fly particularly high. Nathan\u2019s moth was obviously quite low!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"highflyer.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/highflyer.jpg\" width=\"683.2\" height=\"570.2352475247525\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<em>Hydriomena nubilofasciata<\/em>\u00a0 (Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Nathan Fisk<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2016 March 19 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna sends an interesting sequence of snail photographs from her garden in Metchosin. 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