{"id":14610,"date":"2018-07-02T19:01:40","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T00:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14610"},"modified":"2018-07-11T16:55:32","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T21:55:32","slug":"eastern-bumblebee-bombus-impatiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14610","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Bumblebee (<em>Bombus impatiens<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14612\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_20180702_155302.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14612\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_20180702_155302-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Eastern Bumblebee (&lt;em&gt;Bombus impatiens&lt;\/em&gt;)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14612\" data-wp-pid=\"14612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_20180702_155302-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_20180702_155302-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_20180702_155302-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_20180702_155302-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_20180702_155302-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_20180702_155302.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14612\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eastern Bumblebee (<em>Bombus impatiens<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The gooseneck loosestrife (<em>Lysimachia clethroides<\/em>) is in bloom and that generally means I have an opportunity to photograph common eastern bumblebees (<em>Bombus impatiens<\/em>) like this one. I don&#8217;t recommend planting loosestrife unless you really enjoy digging up plants where they appear throughout your garden. It can easily get ahead of you. We sometimes joke about planting two aggressive plants in a container and waiting to see which comes out on top. This has got to be a contender. It does have nice flowers, though, and its attractiveness to bees speaks well of it. Nevertheless, if I could get rid of all we had, I wouldn&#8217;t think twice about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gooseneck loosestrife (Lysimachia clethroides) is in bloom and that generally means I have an opportunity to photograph common eastern bumblebees (Bombus impatiens) like this one. I don&#8217;t recommend planting loosestrife unless you really enjoy digging up plants where they appear throughout your garden. It can easily get ahead of you. We sometimes joke about &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14610\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[119,753,752,751,755,73,121,754,757,756,758],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14610"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14614,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14610\/revisions\/14614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}