{"id":14898,"date":"2021-09-08T17:55:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T00:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14898"},"modified":"2021-09-08T17:56:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T00:56:00","slug":"2021-september-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14898","title":{"rendered":"2021 September 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 September 8<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeff Gaskin writes:&nbsp; Yesterday, September 7, when it was really feeling hot, I found a very fresh and nice looking <strong>Red Admiral<\/strong> on Cecilia Avenue next to the Cecilia Ravine Park.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Aziza sends a photograph of a W<strong>hite-faced Hornet <\/strong>that flew into her house at Cook and Quadra today, September 8.&nbsp;&nbsp; People differ as to how aggressive this wasp is.&nbsp; It is supposed to have a very painful sting.&nbsp; My impression of it (writes Jeremy Tatum) is that it is not particularly aggressive, certainly not as aggressive as many yellowjackets, as long as it is left alone.&nbsp; Naturally, &nbsp;if you were to disturb its nest, the inhabitants would defend it vigorously and they could then be dangerous.&nbsp; For a photograph of its nest, found during the VNHS August Butterfly Walk, see the Invert Alert for August 2.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/E-Wasp-large-1b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"655\" height=\"507\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">White-faced Hornet <em>Dolichovespula maculata <\/em>(Hym.: Vespidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 September 8 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeff Gaskin writes:&nbsp; Yesterday, September 7, when it was really feeling hot, I found a very fresh and nice looking Red Admiral on Cecilia Avenue next to the Cecilia Ravine Park. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Aziza sends a photograph of a White-faced Hornet that flew into her house at Cook and Quadra today, September [&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-14898","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\/14898","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=14898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}