{"id":6722,"date":"2018-07-25T09:58:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T16:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6722"},"modified":"2018-09-01T09:09:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T16:09:42","slug":"july-5-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6722","title":{"rendered":"July 25 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>July 25 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Gordon Hart sent a couple of photographs of a bee in his Highlands garden about a week ago.\u00a0 So far they have evaded identification.\u00a0 If anyone can help, please let us know.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 588px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Bee sp1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Bee-sp1.jpg\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"422.36999999999995\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Unidentified bee\u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 548px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Bee sp2.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Bee-sp2.jpeg\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Unidentified bee\u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Yesterday <strong>sand wasps <\/strong>seem to have attracted the attention of photographers.\u00a0 Photographs were sent by Jody Wells from Saanichton and by Annie Pang from the Gorge.\u00a0 The common default species here is <strong><em>Bembix americana<\/em><\/strong>, which is what we\u2019ll label them here, though viewers might like to be more cautious and think just <em>Bembix <\/em>sp.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 542px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Bembix Jody1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Bembix-Jody1.jpg\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"379.39199999999994\" name=\"null\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sand wasp<em> Bembix americana<\/em> (Hym.:\u00a0 Crabronidae)\u00a0 Jody Wells<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 533px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Bembix Jody2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Bembix-Jody2.jpg\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"391.78328530259364\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sand wasp<em>\u00a0Bembix americana<\/em> (Hym.:\u00a0 Crabronidae)\u00a0 Jody Wells<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 549px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image010.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"P1370119 rev.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/P1370119-rev.jpg\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"576.498\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sand wasp <em>Bembix americana<\/em> (Hym.:\u00a0 Crabronidae)\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 556px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image012.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"P1370122 rev.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/P1370122-rev.jpg\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"569.829\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sand wasp <em>Bembix americana<\/em> (Hym.:\u00a0 Crabronidae)\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Jody Wells sends a picture of a <strong>pond skater (water strider) <\/strong>from Goldstream Heights, July 23.\u00a0 Also intruding illegally into the picture is a vertebrate animal, which Jody tells me is a young <strong>Cutthroat Trout.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 528px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image014.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"gerrid.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/gerrid.jpg\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"444.59999999999997\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Pond Skater (Hem.: Gerridae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cutthroat Trout <em>Oncorhynchus clarkii <\/em>(Sal.: Salmonidae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Jody Wells<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum sends a picture of two moth pupae.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pupae.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/pupae.jpg\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"370.99399999999997\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sheep Moth <em>Hemileuca eglanterina <\/em>(Lep.: Saturniidae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">White-lined Hawk Moth <em>Hyles lineata <\/em>(Lep.: Sphingidae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 25 morning \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Hart sent a couple of photographs of a bee in his Highlands garden about a week ago.\u00a0 So far they have evaded identification.\u00a0 If anyone can help, please let us know. Unidentified bee\u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Hart Unidentified bee\u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Hart &nbsp; \u00a0\u00a0 Yesterday sand wasps seem to have attracted the [&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-6722","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\/6722","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=6722"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7041,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6722\/revisions\/7041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}