{"id":7380,"date":"2018-12-28T11:14:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7380"},"modified":"2018-12-28T11:15:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:15:57","slug":"december-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7380","title":{"rendered":"December 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2018 December 28<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp;&nbsp; I did really well out of Christmas.&nbsp; Santa sent me the new book:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Pacific Northwest Insects<\/strong>, by Merrill Peterson, Published by Seattle Audubon Society 2018<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">ISBN 978-0-914516-18-7<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I shan&#8217;t give a detailed critical review here (I haven&#8217;t read it yet!), but suffice to say that this is a superb book, which anyone who is interested in the terrestrial arthropods of our area will want to have.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; I say &#8220;arthropods&#8221; because, in spite of the title &#8220;Insects&#8221;, it is not restricted to insects, but it covers all Classes and Orders (and probably most Families &#8211; I haven&#8217;t checked in detail) of terrestrial arthropods in the Pacific   Northwest, including Vancouver Island.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; This book is going to be a huge help in identification.&nbsp; It has my highest recommendation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 December 28 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp;&nbsp; I did really well out of Christmas.&nbsp; Santa sent me the new book: &nbsp; Pacific Northwest Insects, by Merrill Peterson, Published by Seattle Audubon Society 2018 ISBN 978-0-914516-18-7 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I shan&#8217;t give a detailed critical review here (I haven&#8217;t read it yet!), but suffice to say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7380","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\/7380","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=7380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}