{"id":3772,"date":"2017-03-27T08:18:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T15:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3772"},"modified":"2017-03-27T16:26:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T23:26:34","slug":"march-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3772","title":{"rendered":"March 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2017 March 27<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:<strong>&nbsp; <\/strong>Bryan Gates<strong>  <\/strong>sends us some identification challenges of nematoceran flies from his window.&nbsp; I am certainly no expert on nematoceran flies, but I think all three of Bryan&#8217;s are different from Ken Vaughan&#8217;s winter gnat (Trichoceridae) posted on March 20.&nbsp; The first   two of Bryan&#8217;s are male and female of doubtless the same species of non-biting <strong>  midge<\/strong>.&nbsp; We can&#8217;t see the wing venation on the third so I&#8217;m slightly less sure of it, but I believe it is a small  <strong>crane fly<\/strong><strong>&nbsp; <\/strong>(not, obviously, the familiar <em>Tipula paludosa<\/em>).&nbsp; We&#8217;d need an expert to go below Family level.&nbsp;&nbsp; None of them bites humans.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" originalheight=\"427\" originalwidth=\"567\" name=\"\" title=\"bryan2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/bryan2.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;Male midge (Dip.: Chironomidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Bryan Gates <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" originalheight=\"438\" originalwidth=\"587\" name=\"\" title=\"bryan3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/bryan3.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;Female midge (Dip.: Chironomidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Bryan Gates<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" originalheight=\"364\" originalwidth=\"494\" name=\"\" title=\"bryan1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/bryan1.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_image006.jpg\">Crane fly (Dip.: Tipulidae)&nbsp; Bryan Gates<\/div>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 March 27 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; Bryan Gates sends us some identification challenges of nematoceran flies from his window.&nbsp; I am certainly no expert on nematoceran flies, but I think all three of Bryan&#8217;s are different from Ken Vaughan&#8217;s winter gnat (Trichoceridae) posted on March 20.&nbsp; The first two of Bryan&#8217;s are male [&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-3772","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\/3772","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=3772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}