{"id":17108,"date":"2022-10-27T21:14:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T04:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=17108"},"modified":"2022-10-27T21:18:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T04:18:49","slug":"2022-october-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=17108","title":{"rendered":"2022 October 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 October 27<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeff Gaskin writes:&nbsp; Just to let you know that <strong>Cabbage Whites<\/strong> are still around.&nbsp; I saw four in the Gorge\/Burnside community, including two at the Gorge Park community garden.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Cheryl Hoyle sends the photograph below, taken in Metchosin, with the query:&nbsp; Is this a termite?<\/p>\n<p>Well, replies Jeremy Tatum, I was just about to make a fool of myself and reply no, it&rsquo;s nothing at all like a termite &#8211; termites aren&rsquo;t black.&nbsp; But a little buzzer inside my head somewhere went off, and said Whoa!&nbsp; Don&rsquo;t be too hasty!&nbsp; Have a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/inaturalist.ca\/taxa\/296465-Reticulitermes-hesperus\">https:\/\/inaturalist.ca\/taxa\/296465-Reticulitermes-hesperus<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I think that&rsquo;s exactly what it is &ndash; a termite!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/DSC_1093-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"536\" height=\"377\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Probably <em>Reticulitermes hesperus <\/em>(Blattodea: Rhinotermitidae)&nbsp; Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 October 27 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeff Gaskin writes:&nbsp; Just to let you know that Cabbage Whites are still around.&nbsp; I saw four in the Gorge\/Burnside community, including two at the Gorge Park community garden. &nbsp;&nbsp; Cheryl Hoyle sends the photograph below, taken in Metchosin, with the query:&nbsp; Is this a termite? Well, replies Jeremy Tatum, I [&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-17108","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\/17108","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=17108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}