{"id":20723,"date":"2017-06-01T17:23:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T00:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=20723"},"modified":"2017-06-01T17:23:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T00:23:30","slug":"bombus-vagans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=20723","title":{"rendered":"Bombus vagans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Half-black Bumble Bee (<em>Bombus vagans<\/em>) is a common bumble bee of North America. Its local scarcity this spring has prompted me to wonder about it. However, I am finding it now &#8212; not in great numbers, but it is here. I saw it yesterday on a few different plants, including the oft-demonized Spotted Knapweed (<em>Centaurea stoebe<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>A <em>Bombus vagans<\/em> lifts off from the flower of a Spotted Knapweed.\u00a0<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20724\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/bombusvagans170531bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My favourite shot of these two makes it look as if we have a blue-legged spider bee in our midst.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20725\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/bombusvagans170531as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Half-black Bumble Bee (Bombus vagans) is a common bumble bee of North America. Its local scarcity this spring has prompted me to wonder about it. However, I am finding it now &#8212; not in great numbers, but it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=20723\">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":[10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bugs","category-wildflowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20723","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=20723"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20733,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20723\/revisions\/20733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}