{"id":6229,"date":"2018-05-27T08:13:31","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T15:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6229"},"modified":"2018-05-27T08:23:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T15:23:17","slug":"may-7-morning-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6229","title":{"rendered":"May 27 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2018 May 27 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 The Astronomy Conference is now over, so Invert Alert is now back to normal!\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks for your patience last week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Scott Gilmore sends some interesting photographs from Lantzville, May 26:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 First, a beetle hitchhiking on a bee. The beetle is <strong><em>Antherophagus ochraceus<\/em><\/strong>. I am not sure about the bee but I am seeking an identification. The beetle develops\/ lives in bee hives. I have seen the beetle on thimbleberry flowers&#8230; maybe waiting for a lift!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 There are also pictures of a fly &#8211;\u00a0 a male and female<strong><em> Dolichopus<\/em><\/strong>. The male has large pads on the front feet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Last is a water strider, <strong><em>Aquarius remigis<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"beetle bee.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/beetle-bee.jpg\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"395.19999999999993\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Antherophagus ochraceus <\/em>(Col.: Cryptophagidae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">On <em>Bombus <\/em>sp. (Hym.: Apidae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 561px;\" title=\"fly male.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/fly-male.jpg\" name=\"null\" \/><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Male <em>Dolichopus <\/em>sp. (Dip.: Dolichopodidae)\u00a0 Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"fly female.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/fly-female.jpg\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"398.16399999999993\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Female <em>Dolichopus <\/em>sp. (Dip.: Dolichopodidae)\u00a0 Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"strider.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/strider.jpg\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"411.9959999999999\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Water Strider <em>Aquarius remigis <\/em>(Hem.:\u00a0 Gerridae)\u00a0 Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 May 27 morning \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 The Astronomy Conference is now over, so Invert Alert is now back to normal!\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks for your patience last week. \u00a0\u00a0 Scott Gilmore sends some interesting photographs from Lantzville, May 26: \u00a0\u00a0 First, a beetle hitchhiking on a bee. The beetle is Antherophagus ochraceus. I am [&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-6229","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\/6229","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=6229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6234,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6229\/revisions\/6234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}