{"id":5484,"date":"2018-01-22T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5484"},"modified":"2018-01-22T09:52:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T17:52:08","slug":"january-21-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5484","title":{"rendered":"January 21"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   <\/strong>Some unusual animals today from Scott Gilmore, who writes:  My son and I went on a walk in the forest yesterday morning (January 20th) and we found a couple of interesting things. The first was another snail species which makes 16 species in Lantzville that I have found now. I am confident it is from the genus Pristiloma<\/em><\/strong>, (possibly P. arcticum<\/em>).  The snail is only a little over 2mm wide.  [Jeremy Tatum writes;  2 mm!  Viewers please note!]<\/p>\n

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  Robert Forsyth comments:  It could be P. arcticum, <\/em>but more likely Pristiloma lansingi, <\/em><\/strong>although we can’t rule out P. crateris.<\/em><\/p>\n

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  Scott continues:  We also found 3 unknown larvae. They were under the bark of a fallen tree. They are very transparent with dark heads. I have no idea what they might be.<\/p>\n

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  Jeremy Tatum writes:  I had no idea, either, to start with.  I thought maybe Kingdom Animalia.  But after a bit of searching around I now believe that these larvae are very likely larvae of a fungus gnat (Family Mycetophilidae).<\/strong>   <\/strong>The snail and gnat families are both firsts for this Invertebrate Alert site.<\/p>\n

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Tightcoil Pristiloma <\/em>(probably lansingi<\/em>) (Pul.:  Pristilomatidae) Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n

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Tightcoil Pristiloma <\/em>(probably lansingi<\/em>) (Pul.:  Pristilomatidae) Scott Gilmore <\/p>\n

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Tightcoil Pristiloma <\/em>(probably lansingi<\/em>) (Pul.:  Pristilomatidae) Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n

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Probably fungus gnat (Dip.: Mycetophilidae) Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n

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2018 January 21      Some unusual animals today from Scott Gilmore, who writes:  My son and I went on a walk in the forest yesterday morning (January 20th) and we found a couple of interesting things. The first was another snail species which makes 16 species in Lantzville that I have found now. I […]<\/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-5484","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\/5484","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=5484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}