{"id":5227,"date":"2017-10-14T16:27:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T23:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5227"},"modified":"2017-10-14T16:28:17","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T23:28:17","slug":"october-14-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5227","title":{"rendered":"October 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2017 October 14<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Nathan Fisk sends an interesting picture of a cell from the nest of a  <strong>leafcutter bee<\/strong>.&nbsp; He found three of these cells in the soil at Fort Rodd Hill Nursery. The cell will be provisioned with nectar and pollen, and one egg will be laid inside it.&nbsp; The bee larva will grow within.&nbsp; The sides of the cell are constructed   from roughly rectangular portions of a leaf, and the ends are constructed from circular portions.&nbsp; Leafcutter bees are regarded as major pollinators.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"1029\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"Leafcutter.jpg\" height=\"511.07\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Leafcutter.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cell from nest of leafcutter bee&nbsp; (Hym.:&nbsp; Megachilidae)&nbsp; Nathan Fisk<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jochen Moehr sends a photograph of the moth <strong><em>Plemyria georgii <\/em>  <\/strong>&nbsp;from his home in Metchosin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"1130\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"Joch Plemyria georgii.jpg\" height=\"561.2333333333333\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Joch-Plemyria-georgii.jpg\"><br \/>  <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Plemyria georgii <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 October 14 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Nathan Fisk sends an interesting picture of a cell from the nest of a leafcutter bee.&nbsp; He found three of these cells in the soil at Fort Rodd Hill Nursery. The cell will be provisioned with nectar and pollen, and one egg will be laid inside it.&nbsp; The bee larva [&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-5227","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\/5227","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=5227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}