{"id":3704,"date":"2017-03-05T03:42:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T11:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3704"},"modified":"2017-03-05T11:46:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T19:46:56","slug":"march-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3704","title":{"rendered":"March 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2017 March 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Rosemary Jorna writes:&nbsp; This very cold <strong>Conifer Seed Bug<\/strong> landed on a fellow hiker&#8217;s jacket yesterday afternoon on Larkspur in the Sooke Hills.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum comments:&nbsp; Rosemary was either brave or lucky &#8211; not sure which.&nbsp; I  <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">think<\/span> (not 100 percent certain!) that the Conifer Seed Bug  <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">may<\/span> be OK &#8211; but there are some quite similar-looking bugs in the Family Reduviidae that can give a rather nasty and painful poisonous stab. Just look at the length of the rostrum in the view of the underside   of Rosemary&#8217;s bug!&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"830\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"Conifer seed.jpg\" height=\"414.44666666666666\" width=\"599.2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Conifer-seed.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">Conifer Seed Bug  <em>Leptoglossus occidentalis <\/em>(Hem.: Coreidae)&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"900\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"conifer seed 2.jpg\" height=\"449.40000000000003\" width=\"599.2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/conifer-seed-2.jpg\">  <\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;Conifer Seed Bug <em>Leptoglossus occidentalis <\/em>  (Hem.: Coreidae)&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"1005\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"conifer seed und.jpg\" height=\"501.83000000000004\" width=\"599.2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/conifer-seed-und.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\">Conifer Seed Bug  <em>Leptoglossus occidentalis <\/em>(Hem.: Coreidae)&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 March 5 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna writes:&nbsp; This very cold Conifer Seed Bug landed on a fellow hiker&#8217;s jacket yesterday afternoon on Larkspur in the Sooke Hills. &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum comments:&nbsp; Rosemary was either brave or lucky &#8211; not sure which.&nbsp; I think (not 100 percent certain!) that the Conifer Seed Bug may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3704","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\/3704","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=3704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}