{"id":527,"date":"2010-11-22T18:56:33","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T02:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=527"},"modified":"2010-12-26T14:41:09","modified_gmt":"2010-12-26T22:41:09","slug":"winter-wasp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=527","title":{"rendered":"Winter Wasp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, as the temperature hovered around -7\u00b0C and the visibility over the Lake dropped to zero in blowing snow (first picture), I was visited by\u2014gulp\u2014a wasp (second picture).<\/p>\n<p>The only wasps which live through the winter around here are queens. This one is a Golden Paper Wasp (<em>Polistes aurifer<\/em>). I have seen them before when the outside temperature plummets in the winter and the conditions in my home are confused with springtime. Mind you, it did appear a tad dopey. Maybe it will go back to sleep and later present me with family to admire.<\/p>\n<p>The Kootenay-Lake\u00a0Website offers a discussion and more pictures of local <a href=\"http:\/\/kootenay-lake.ca\/bugs\/hymenoptera\/socialwasps\/index.html\">social wasps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The conditions outside when a wasp stopped by for a visit\u2014unfit for man or wasp<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-528\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/blowingsnow101122s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"723\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This Golden Paper Wasp queen (<em>Polistes aurifer<\/em>) seemed to prefer my home to outdoors<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-529\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/polistesauiferQ101122s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, as the temperature hovered around -7\u00b0C and the visibility over the Lake dropped to zero in blowing snow (first picture), I was visited by\u2014gulp\u2014a wasp (second picture). The only wasps which live through the winter around here are queens. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=527\">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":[10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bugs","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","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=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions\/536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}