{"id":15434,"date":"2022-03-31T17:37:24","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T00:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15434"},"modified":"2022-03-31T17:38:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T00:38:14","slug":"2022-march31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15434","title":{"rendered":"2022 March31"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 March 31<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Rosemary Jorna photographed some bees from a rock in her Kemp Lake garden on March 29.&nbsp; Lincoln Best writes:<\/p>\n<p>They are males and females of <strong><em>Andrena<\/em><\/strong> (<strong><em>Trachandrena<\/em><\/strong>).&nbsp;I cannot determine the species from the photos and I cannot tell if they represent one or two different species.&nbsp;There are several <em>Trachandrena<\/em> on the Island and some are difficult to distinguish without a microscope.&nbsp;Beautiful images,<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/P3291904.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"743\" height=\"497\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Andrena <\/em>(<em>Trachandrena) <\/em>sp.&nbsp; (Hym.: Andrenidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna<\/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\/P3291865.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"444\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Andrena <\/em>(<em>Trachandrena) <\/em>sp.&nbsp; (Hym.: Andrenidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna<\/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\/P3291866.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"429\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Andrena <\/em>(<em>Trachandrena) <\/em>sp.&nbsp; (Hym.: Andrenidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna<\/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\/P3291875.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"693\" height=\"510\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Andrena <\/em>(<em>Trachandrena) <\/em>sp.&nbsp; (Hym.: Andrenidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna<\/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\/P3291928.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"656\" height=\"447\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Andrena <\/em>(<em>Trachandrena) <\/em>sp.&nbsp; (Hym.: Andrenidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; The Andrenidae nest in the ground and are known as <strong>mining bees.&nbsp; <\/strong>For those not familiar with the finer points of scientific nomenclature,&nbsp; <em>Andrena<\/em> is the genus, beginning with a capital letter, and set in italics.&nbsp; When you see a name in parentheses following the genus name, also beginning with a capital letter, and set in italics, in this case <em>Trachandrena<\/em>, this refers to the subgenus. Thus, <em>Trachandrena<\/em> is a subgenus within the genus <em>Andrena<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 March 31 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna photographed some bees from a rock in her Kemp Lake garden on March 29.&nbsp; Lincoln Best writes: They are males and females of Andrena (Trachandrena).&nbsp;I cannot determine the species from the photos and I cannot tell if they represent one or two different species.&nbsp;There are several Trachandrena on 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-15434","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\/15434","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=15434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}