{"id":12674,"date":"2015-02-05T11:15:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T19:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12674"},"modified":"2015-02-06T20:59:04","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T04:59:04","slug":"bugs-of-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12674","title":{"rendered":"Bugs of winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Winter drives some of the herbivorous shield bugs to seek the warmth of homes. Most often seen is the <a href=\"http:\/\/kootenay-lake.ca\/bugs\/notorious\/index.html\">Western Conifer Seed Bug<\/a>. It\u00a0is merely an aesthetic nuisance as it lethargically\u00a0crawls across the floor. It can be picked up by its antennae and thrown outdoors. Although a stinkbug, it only offers\u00a0a mild\u00a0scent of cedar.\u00a0<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12675\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/westernconiferseedbug1150205s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Consperse Stink Bug was new to me. It is one of the native shield or stink bugs of western North America. As I did not know if its defences were pungent or mild, I ushered it outdoors with utmost care.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12676\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/conspersestinkbug150203s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Winter drives some of the herbivorous shield bugs to seek the warmth of homes. Most often seen is the Western Conifer Seed Bug. It\u00a0is merely an aesthetic nuisance as it lethargically\u00a0crawls across the floor. It can be picked up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12674\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12674"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12687,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12674\/revisions\/12687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}