{"id":14012,"date":"2015-06-24T07:05:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T14:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14012"},"modified":"2015-06-24T17:55:13","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T00:55:13","slug":"white-butt-lives-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14012","title":{"rendered":"White butt lives still"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Much has appeared in the press in the last few years about the plight of bees. Usually the press makes no distinction between the Honey Bee (an invasive species) and the many native pollinators, such as bumble bees.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Western Bumble Bee (<em>Bombus occidentalis<\/em>)\u00a0used to be plentiful throughout much of western North America. Over a decade ago, it began vanishing from the southern portions of its traditional range, particularly in the United States and much of southern British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, I and others still occasionally have seen it around Kootenay Lake (southeastern BC). I have shown images and written about it since 2009, more recently\u00a0in 2012 as <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5072\">two bees or not to be<\/a>, and in 2013 as <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7543\">white butt lives<\/a>. Sadly in 2014, I failed to find\u00a0it. Had it now been locally extirpated?<\/p>\n<p>It was a delight to discover it yesterday as it collected pollen in my yard.<\/p>\n<p>The Western Bumble Bee is easily identified by its distinctive white butt.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14013\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/bombusoccidenalis150623s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Much has appeared in the press in the last few years about the plight of bees. Usually the press makes no distinction between the Honey Bee (an invasive species) and the many native pollinators, such as bumble bees.\u00a0 The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14012\">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-14012","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\/14012","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=14012"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14039,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14012\/revisions\/14039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}