{"id":13720,"date":"2021-04-06T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13720"},"modified":"2021-04-06T17:15:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T00:15:54","slug":"april-6-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13720","title":{"rendered":"April 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 April 6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Mr E sends a photograph of an ant of the genus <em>Formica<\/em>.&nbsp; These are known as wood ants or thatcher ants.&nbsp; They are the ants that make nests of huge piles of fir needles, small twigs,&nbsp; etc.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 430px; 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=\"431\" originalheight=\"537\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/pastedImage-46.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Formica <\/em>sp.&nbsp; (Hym.: Formicidae)&nbsp; Mr E<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 April 6 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Mr E sends a photograph of an ant of the genus Formica.&nbsp; These are known as wood ants or thatcher ants.&nbsp; They are the ants that make nests of huge piles of fir needles, small twigs,&nbsp; etc. &nbsp; Formica sp.&nbsp; (Hym.: Formicidae)&nbsp; Mr E<\/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-13720","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\/13720","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=13720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}