{"id":9076,"date":"2019-08-18T10:03:54","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T17:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2019-08-18T10:06:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T17:06:43","slug":"august-18-morning-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=9076","title":{"rendered":"August 18 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2019 August 18 morning<\/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; I don&#8217;t think I have found a permanent solution to the computer problem that beset Invert Alert recently, but I am posting two photographs here as a test.&nbsp; If they work all right, we may   try opening up Invertebrate Alert to photographs again.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#8217;ll let you know in the next posting. Apologize to those who who did not have their photographs posted in the past week.&nbsp; In the meantime, please continue to send text reports of interesting sightings,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp; The photographs below show a <strong>harvestman <\/strong>  on the wall of my Saanich apartment building yesterday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The name&nbsp; &#8220;daddy-long-legs&#8221; is used for several different insects, spiders and harvestmen in different parts of the English-speaking world, so perhaps it is best to stick to the name &#8220;harvestman&#8221;.&nbsp; In England the name &#8220;daddy-long-legs&#8221;   is used for a crane fly.&nbsp; I have never seen this, but I have read that harvestmen from time to time undergo ecydsis, when they shed their entire skin, legs included, in one piece.&nbsp; The second pair of a harvestman&#8217;s legs are longer than the others.&nbsp; It uses   the second pair for tactile exploring, although it is thought that these legs may also have olfactory or chemical sensors.&nbsp; Sometimes a harvestman will lose one or more legs through accident, and these legs do not degererate.&nbsp; The loss of one or two legs does   not unduly incommode the animal, unless it loses one of the second pair, in which case the animal is more seriously inconvenienced.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 411px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 411px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"411\" originalheight=\"616\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/pastedImage-93.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Phalangium opilio <\/em>(Opil.: Phalangiidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 496px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"429\" originalheight=\"584\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/pastedImage-94.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Phalangium opilio <\/em>(Opil.: Phalangiidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 August 18 morning &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I don&#8217;t think I have found a permanent solution to the computer problem that beset Invert Alert recently, but I am posting two photographs here as a test.&nbsp; If they work all right, we may try opening up Invertebrate Alert to photographs again.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#8217;ll let you [&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-9076","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\/9076","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=9076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}