{"id":17592,"date":"2023-03-01T10:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T18:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=17592"},"modified":"2023-03-01T10:32:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T18:32:37","slug":"2023-march-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=17592","title":{"rendered":"2023 March 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\"><b>2023 March 1<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\">Cheryl Hoyle sends a photograph of a Running Crab Spider from View Royal, February 28.\u00a0 Thanks to Dr Robb Bennett for identifying it as <b><i>Philodromus rufus<\/i>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image.png\" alt=\"image.png\" width=\"412\" height=\"290\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\"><i>Philodromus rufus <\/i>(Ara.: Philodromidae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper writes from James Bay, February 28: I spotted a number of honey bees feeding on flowers in James Bay this afternoon &#8211; my first bee sightings of the year! \u00a0The location was a flower bed by the Royal Scot Hotel in James Bay. \u00a0I was surprised to see bees buzzing around in a flower garden. \u00a0Not sure what kind of flowers they are, but someone may recognize them, as they seem to be popular ornamentals that can withstand our cooler months.\u00a0 (Bill Savale says probably <i>Helleborus <\/i>sp.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-1.png\" alt=\"image.png\" width=\"412\" height=\"374\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\">Honey Bee\u00a0 <i>Apis mellifera <\/i>(Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-2.png\" alt=\"image.png\" width=\"412\" height=\"326\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\">Honey Bee\u00a0 <i>Apis mellifera <\/i>(Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-3.png\" alt=\"image.png\" width=\"412\" height=\"332\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\">Honey Bee\u00a0 <i>Apis mellifera <\/i>(Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 March 1 &nbsp; Cheryl Hoyle sends a photograph of a Running Crab Spider from View Royal, February 28.\u00a0 Thanks to Dr Robb Bennett for identifying it as Philodromus rufus. &nbsp; Philodromus rufus (Ara.: Philodromidae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle \u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper writes from James Bay, February 28: I spotted a number of honey bees feeding on [&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-17592","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\/17592","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=17592"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17601,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17592\/revisions\/17601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}