{"id":15230,"date":"2021-12-12T11:31:56","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T19:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15230"},"modified":"2021-12-12T11:33:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T19:33:25","slug":"2021-december-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15230","title":{"rendered":"2021 December 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 December 12<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Gordon Hart writes:&nbsp; Michael Simmons, of Brentwood Bay, sent me a photograph of a bee seen on Thursday December 9, feeding on a Winter Sun Mahonia in full bloom. &nbsp;I think it is likely <strong><em>Bombus melanopygus<\/em><\/strong>, the <strong>Black-tailed Bumblebee<\/strong>, based on the bit of orange with very little yellow, and the fact that this is a common species on the west coast, with a long season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/bee-sp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"691\" height=\"621\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Probably <em>Bombus melanopygus <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae)&nbsp; Michael Simmons<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 December 12 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Gordon Hart writes:&nbsp; Michael Simmons, of Brentwood Bay, sent me a photograph of a bee seen on Thursday December 9, feeding on a Winter Sun Mahonia in full bloom. &nbsp;I think it is likely Bombus melanopygus, the Black-tailed Bumblebee, based on the bit of orange with very little yellow, and the [&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-15230","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\/15230","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=15230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}