{"id":7583,"date":"2013-05-01T09:41:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T16:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7583"},"modified":"2013-05-01T19:48:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T02:48:43","slug":"name-that-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7583","title":{"rendered":"Name that bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An unexpected pleasure this morning was an item on the CBC&#8217;s radio programme, Daybreak South. It was about bugs (well, arthropods, actually). Listeners had sent in pictures which were then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/daybreaksouth\/2013\/05\/01\/name-that-bug\/\" target=\"_blank\">posted<\/a> and now entomologist, Hugh Philip, was naming and discussing them. What fun; who would have expected a treatment of bug identification on the radio?<\/p>\n<p>As a tribute to that effort, I post a half-dozen bug shots taken in my yard over the last few days, along with my own tentative\u00a0identification. Others (even Hugh Philip) are welcome to correct my identifications.<\/p>\n<p>The Mourning Cloak (<em>Nymphalis antiopa<\/em>) is common throughout the Province and the butterfly season.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7589\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mourningcloak130428s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Bombylius fly (possibly,\u00a0<i>Bombylius major<\/i>)\u00a0is only seen early in the season (April and May).<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7584\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/bombylius130421s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The bumble bee season is underway. This is possibly\u00a0<em>Bombus bifarius<\/em>.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7588\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/bombusbifarius130425as.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I suspect that this bumble bee is a <em>Bombus melanopygus<\/em>.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7586\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/bombusmelanopygus130428s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The wasp season is just beginning. The\u00a0European\u00a0Paper Wasp (<i>Polistes dominula<\/i>) is an invasive species that arrived in the Province a decade ago. It makes those open-faced, disc-shaped hives which are particularly interesting to watch.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7585\" ondblclick=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/polistesdominula130428as.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The closed ball-shaped hives are made by either of our two long-faced wasps. One of the two is the Aerial Yellowjacket (<i>Dolichovespula arenaria<\/i>).<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7587\" ondblclick=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/aerialyellowjacket130425as.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; An unexpected pleasure this morning was an item on the CBC&#8217;s radio programme, Daybreak South. It was about bugs (well, arthropods, actually). Listeners had sent in pictures which were then posted and now entomologist, Hugh Philip, was naming and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7583\">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-7583","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\/7583","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=7583"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7594,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7583\/revisions\/7594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}