{"id":15101,"date":"2021-10-18T17:13:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T00:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15101"},"modified":"2021-10-18T17:18:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T00:18:33","slug":"2021-october-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15101","title":{"rendered":"2021 October 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 October 18<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Aziza Cooper writes:&nbsp; Friday, October 15, this creature was in my home, and I removed it in a jar. Sorry I&#8217;m not bold enough to try to take it out.&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum replies:&nbsp; You may safely let it out.&nbsp; It is not aggressive and it won&rsquo;t attack you.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&rsquo;d be inclined not to let it crawl around on your hand.&nbsp; It has a strong and sharp rostrum.&nbsp; If you are not sure what its rostrum is, let it crawl on your hand, and you will soon find out.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/K-Insect-in-jar-1b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"433\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Western Conifer Seed Bug <em>Leptoglossus occidentalis <\/em>(Hem.: Coreidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 October 18 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Aziza Cooper writes:&nbsp; Friday, October 15, this creature was in my home, and I removed it in a jar. Sorry I&#8217;m not bold enough to try to take it out.&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum replies:&nbsp; You may safely let it out.&nbsp; It is not aggressive and it won&rsquo;t attack you.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&rsquo;d be inclined [&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-15101","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\/15101","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=15101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}