{"id":5425,"date":"2018-01-08T14:59:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T22:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5425"},"modified":"2018-01-10T10:55:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T18:55:10","slug":"january-8-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5425","title":{"rendered":"January 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2018 January 8<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Scott Gilmore writes from Lantzville:\u00a0 I spent a long time exploring about a square foot of my backyard on Saturday (Jan 6th) and found more things than I have had a chance to identify yet or even deal with the photographs. The first is a <strong>mite<\/strong> from the family <strong>Erythracaridae.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>\u00a0I really think it should be called the <strong>Candy Cane Mite<\/strong>. The second is a new snail for me,\u00a0<strong><em>Lauria cylindracea<\/em><\/strong>, a European import. And the last is a family of beetle I have never seen before, the <strong>Primitive Carrion Beetles<\/strong>, family <strong>Agyrtidae<\/strong>. This is\u00a0<strong><em>Necrophilus hydrophiloides<\/em><\/strong> and I found them inside a decomposing squash.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 543px; height: 509px;\" title=\"candycane mite1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/candycane-mite1.jpg\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Candycane Mite (Acari: Erythracaridae)\u00a0 Scott Gilmore<\/p>\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: 479px;\" title=\"candycane mite2.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/candycane-mite2.jpg\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Candycane Mite (Acari: Erythracaridae)\u00a0 Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 465px; height: 463px;\" title=\"candycane mite3.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/candycane-mite3.jpg\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Candycane Mite (Acari: Erythracaridae)\u00a0 Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Lauiria.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Lauiria.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"367.5333333333333\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Lauria cylindracea<\/em> (Pul.: Pupillidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image010.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"beetles.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/beetles.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"397.3333333333333\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Necrophilus hydrophiloides <\/em>(Col.:\u00a0 Agyrtidae)\u00a0 Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Scott also sends photographs of three spiders.\u00a0 It\u2019s a bit tricky to identify them, but thank you Robb Bennett for having a go!\u00a0 Robb has the first two to genus and probably species.\u00a0 He writes that the third one is a linyphiine linyphiid.\u00a0 For those unfamiliar with the jargon, this means that it belongs to the Family Linyphiidae, and, within that, to the Subfamily Linyphiinae (sheet-web weavers).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image012.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"spider8155.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/spider8155.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"430.60999999999996\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Eratigena <\/em>(probably <em>agrestis<\/em>) (Ara.:\u00a0 Agelenidae)\u00a0 Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image014.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"spider8263.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/spider8263.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"397.3333333333333\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Xysticus <\/em>(probably <em>cristatus<\/em>)\u00a0 (Ara.: Thomisidae) Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image016.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"spider8319.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/spider8319.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"397.3333333333333\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ara.:\u00a0 Lyniphiidae &#8211; Lyniphiinae\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 January 8 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Scott Gilmore writes from Lantzville:\u00a0 I spent a long time exploring about a square foot of my backyard on Saturday (Jan 6th) and found more things than I have had a chance to identify yet or even deal with the photographs. The first is a mite from the family Erythracaridae.\u00a0 [&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-5425","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\/5425","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=5425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5437,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5425\/revisions\/5437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}