{"id":13032,"date":"2020-12-23T16:37:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T00:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13032"},"modified":"2020-12-23T16:46:02","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T00:46:02","slug":"december-23-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13032","title":{"rendered":"December 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2020 December 23<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Gordon Hart writes: Yesterday, Tuesday, December 22, while parts of Greater Victoria were covered in ice and snow, we walked along the snow-free Songhees walkway bordering the Inner Harbour, and found bees and flies enjoying winter-blooming  <em>Mahonia<\/em> and other flowers. I have attached photos of a <strong><em>Bombus vosnesenskii<\/em><\/strong> (Yellow-faced Bee) and a fly species (House Fly?).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 577px; 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=\"577\" originalheight=\"447\" width=\"496.8\" height=\"384.8693240901213\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/pastedImage-89.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Bombus vosnesenskii <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae) Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#8217;m pretty sure that the fly is a muscine, but not certain that it is  <em>Musca domestica. <\/em>The venation of the fly below is very similar to that of  <em>M. domestica, <\/em>but <em>M. domestica <\/em>usually has a few longitudinal stripes on the thorax, which I don&#8217;t see on this one.&nbsp; If any viewer can go further, please let us know.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 530px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"530\" originalheight=\"427\" width=\"496.8\" height=\"400.2520754716981\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/pastedImage-90.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Dip.:&nbsp; Muscidae &#8211; Muscinae&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 December 23 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Gordon Hart writes: Yesterday, Tuesday, December 22, while parts of Greater Victoria were covered in ice and snow, we walked along the snow-free Songhees walkway bordering the Inner Harbour, and found bees and flies enjoying winter-blooming Mahonia and other flowers. I have attached photos of a Bombus vosnesenskii (Yellow-faced Bee) [&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-13032","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\/13032","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=13032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}