{"id":2271,"date":"2011-07-13T09:21:22","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T16:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2271"},"modified":"2011-07-14T19:40:55","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T02:40:55","slug":"flower-chafer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2271","title":{"rendered":"Flower chafer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hairy flower chafer is a beetle (<em>Trichiotinus piger<\/em>) that also goes by the name, the bee-mimic beetle. Indeed, it hangs out around flowers, is a plausible mimic of a bumble bee, and is a pollinator.<\/p>\n<p>In other years, I have seen many bumble bees and only a few of these. This year it is the reverse: the hairy flower chafers seem to be doing the bulk of the pollinating in my yard (three pictures, below).<\/p>\n<p>A hairy flower chafer is soon covered with pollen as it roams between flowers. These weeks I see them mainly on daisies.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2272\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/beemimicbeetle110710s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I usually only see one of these on any flower.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2273\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/beemimicbeetles110710b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But, it seems that these two have decided to become friends.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2274\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/beemimicbeetles110710a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hairy flower chafer is a beetle (Trichiotinus piger) that also goes by the name, the bee-mimic beetle. Indeed, it hangs out around flowers, is a plausible mimic of a bumble bee, and is a pollinator. In other years, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2271\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-2271","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\/2271","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=2271"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2313,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271\/revisions\/2313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}