{"id":15414,"date":"2022-03-26T15:38:52","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T22:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15414"},"modified":"2022-03-26T15:47:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T22:47:38","slug":"2022-march-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15414","title":{"rendered":"2022 March 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 March 26<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Gordon Hart writes from Highlands<strong>:&nbsp; <\/strong>On Wednesday &nbsp;March 23, I saw two <strong>Green Commas<\/strong>. Yesterday, Friday March 25, I saw several black and white moths, <strong><em>Mesoleuca gratulata<\/em><\/strong>, a nice sign of spring, and several species of bumblebee. &nbsp;I am enclosing a photo of what I think may be a <strong><em>Bombus melanopygus<\/em><\/strong>, or <strong>Black-tailed Bumblebee<\/strong>. The other bees were <strong><em>B. vosnesenskii<\/em><\/strong>, and possibly <strong><em>B. bifarius<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; I think the small brownish and white moths, <strong><em>Enchoria lacteata<\/em><\/strong>, were flying as well, but I could not find one perched.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Mesoleuca-Gratulata.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"709\" height=\"564\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Mesoleuca gratulata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Bombus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"713\" height=\"533\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Bombus melanopygus <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae)&nbsp; Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 March 26 &nbsp;&nbsp; Gordon Hart writes from Highlands:&nbsp; On Wednesday &nbsp;March 23, I saw two Green Commas. Yesterday, Friday March 25, I saw several black and white moths, Mesoleuca gratulata, a nice sign of spring, and several species of bumblebee. &nbsp;I am enclosing a photo of what I think may be a Bombus melanopygus, [&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-15414","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\/15414","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=15414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}