{"id":5369,"date":"2017-12-07T15:37:42","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T23:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5369"},"modified":"2017-12-07T15:49:37","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T23:49:37","slug":"december-7-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5369","title":{"rendered":"December 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2017 December 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Annie Pang sends a picture of a nematoceran fly on her wall.&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:<\/p>\n<p>It is almost certainly a <strong>winter gnat<\/strong> of the family Trichoceridae, although there are some small species of crane fly (Tipulidae &#8211; Limoniinae) that look quite similar and which fold their wings gnat-fashion rather than in more typical Tipulinae.&nbsp;   Beyond family level I dare not go.&nbsp; Limoniines often bob up and down while at rest.&nbsp; Readers who see a suspected limoniine or trichocerid should keep a look-out for this limoniine habit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" hasheight=\"true\" setwidth=\"515\" setheight=\"497\" style=\"width: 515px; height: 497px;\" originalheight=\"1008\" originalwidth=\"1044\" name=\"\" title=\"P1050532 rev.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/P1050532-rev.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Probable Winter Gnat (Dip.: &nbsp;Trichoceridae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Annie Pang<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 December 7 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Annie Pang sends a picture of a nematoceran fly on her wall.&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes: It is almost certainly a winter gnat of the family Trichoceridae, although there are some small species of crane fly (Tipulidae &#8211; Limoniinae) that look quite similar and which fold their wings gnat-fashion rather than [&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-5369","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\/5369","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=5369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}