{"id":3900,"date":"2017-04-18T18:36:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T18:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3900"},"modified":"2017-04-19T11:12:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T18:12:31","slug":"april-18-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3900","title":{"rendered":"April 18, morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2017 April 18 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>This morning\u2019s posting is exclusively devoted to the Class Arachnida &#8211; a wide range of them: spiders, a tick hard at work, a mite, and even a false scorpion!\u00a0 There will probably be another posting this evening with more familiar creatures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Two spiders.\u00a0 One with an eggsac, moving fast over the hills, west of the Sooke River, photographed by Rosemary Jorna, April 17.\u00a0 And a tiny money spider\u00a0 (3.5 mm, not including legs) from Quick\u2019s Bottom, April 17, photographed by Jeremy Tatum.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"spider w eggsac.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/spider-w-eggsac.jpg\" width=\"598.4\" height=\"448.79999999999995\" 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=\"\" \/>Female wolf spider <em>Pardosa <\/em>(maybe <em>vancouveri<\/em>) (Ara.: Lycosidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 425px;\" title=\"small spider.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/small-spider.jpg\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Money spider (Ara.: Linyphiidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here is a photograph of a tick hard at work on Rosemary Jorna on the Sooke Hills, April17.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"tick at work.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/tick-at-work.jpg\" width=\"598.4\" height=\"466.752\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Western Black-legged Tick <em>Ixodes pacificus <\/em> (Acari: Ixodidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And here is a <strong>velvet mite<\/strong>, also photographed by Rosemary in the Sooke Hills, April 17.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Heather Proctor for the identification.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 562px;\" title=\"red mite.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/red-mite.jpg\" 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=\"\" \/>Red mite (Acari:\u00a0 Trombidioidea &#8211; probably Trombidiidae)<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This morning, April 18, in Metchosin, Rosemary Jorna photographed a <strong> false scorpion <\/strong>reading the latest news about Senator Rubio and President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"false scorpion2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/false-scorpion2.jpg\" width=\"598.4\" height=\"471.24\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0False scorpion (Order Pseudoscorpiones)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 April 18 morning \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 This morning\u2019s posting is exclusively devoted to the Class Arachnida &#8211; a wide range of them: spiders, a tick hard at work, a mite, and even a false scorpion!\u00a0 There will probably be another posting this evening with more familiar creatures. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Two spiders.\u00a0 One with an eggsac, [&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-3900","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\/3900","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=3900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3910,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900\/revisions\/3910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}