{"id":6249,"date":"2012-08-27T08:54:48","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T15:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6249"},"modified":"2012-08-27T08:54:48","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T15:54:48","slug":"stump-stabber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6249","title":{"rendered":"Stump stabber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I clearly don&#8217;t spend enough time in the woods. Otherwise, my first encounter with a stump stabber would not have taken place inside my home. This western giant ichneumon wasp (<em>Megarhyssa nortoni<\/em>) was looking for some grubs deep inside decaying wood so it could\u00a0parasitize\u00a0them. Unfortunately for it, my home offered slim pickings.<\/p>\n<p>The female stump stabber has an amazingly long ovipositor which is used to insert eggs into wood-boring grubs deep inside a tree. The hatched egg will then devour the living grub, leaving the vital organs for\u00a0dessert.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6251\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/stumpstabber120826as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The stump stabber searches for grubs deep in the wood by drumming its antenna on the surface. This windowsill proved a\u00a0disappointment&#8212;no grubs here.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6250\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/stumpstabber120826bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I clearly don&#8217;t spend enough time in the woods. Otherwise, my first encounter with a stump stabber would not have taken place inside my home. This western giant ichneumon wasp (Megarhyssa nortoni) was looking for some grubs deep inside &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6249\">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-6249","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\/6249","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=6249"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6254,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6249\/revisions\/6254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}