{"id":1859,"date":"2012-09-23T23:01:28","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T04:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2012-09-25T22:05:36","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T03:05:36","slug":"bombus-impatiens-common-eastern-bumble-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=1859","title":{"rendered":"<em>Bombus impatiens<\/em> (Common Eastern Bumble Bee)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1861\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/img_20120923_044818.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1861\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/img_20120923_044818-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Bombus impatiens (Common Eastern Bumble Bee)\" title=\"&lt;em&gt;Bombus impatiens&lt;\/em&gt; (Common Eastern Bumble Bee)\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1861\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/img_20120923_044818-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/img_20120923_044818-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/img_20120923_044818-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/img_20120923_044818-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/img_20120923_044818.jpg 833w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1861\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Bombus impatiens<\/em> (Common Eastern Bumble Bee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When I see a big black bee with a blond, hairy thorax, I tend to call it a bumble bee whether that&#8217;s really what it is or not. There are plenty of bees of this general size and look, but I think this actually is a common eastern bumble bee (<em>Bombus impatiens<\/em>). They are actually quite hard to photograph on my mountain mint because they don&#8217;t stop moving. Some bees actually stop for short while not and then but not these chaps. Busy as a bee applies to them. This is as good a photo as I was able to get but it&#8217;s a bit blurry. Sorry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I see a big black bee with a blond, hairy thorax, I tend to call it a bumble bee whether that&#8217;s really what it is or not. There are plenty of bees of this general size and look, but I think this actually is a common eastern bumble bee (Bombus impatiens). They are actually &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=1859\">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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859"}],"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=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1862,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions\/1862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}