{"id":19281,"date":"2020-07-21T15:41:22","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T20:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19281"},"modified":"2020-07-29T10:40:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T15:40:54","slug":"bicyrtes-quadrifasciatus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19281","title":{"rendered":"<em>Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19283\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_20200721_177214.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19283\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_20200721_177214-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_20200721_177214-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_20200721_177214-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_20200721_177214-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_20200721_177214-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_20200721_177214.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19283\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is a sand wasp, <em>Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus<\/em> I believe. It&#8217;s fairly common although nothing like the western honey bee or the bumble or carpenter bee, but I see them quite a bit on the mountain mint (<em>Pycnanthemum muticum<\/em>), as this one is. If I go out in the heat of the day, with the sun beating down on the mountain mint, it&#8217;s an absolute hive of activity (and I mean that in the most literal sense). There are myriad bees and wasps buzzing around with an occasional skipper sneaking in. The buddleia above has mostly bumble and carpenter bees as well as butterflies. Now and then I spot a true bug of one sort or another. It&#8217;s really wonderful, unless of course you are allergic or simply afraid of stinging things. It&#8217;s also very hot so I don&#8217;t generally stay out too long, but I love it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a sand wasp, Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus I believe. It&#8217;s fairly common although nothing like the western honey bee or the bumble or carpenter bee, but I see them quite a bit on the mountain mint (Pycnanthemum muticum), as this one is. If I go out in the heat of the day, with the sun &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19281\">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":[2522,2523,1162,1677,2524,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19281"}],"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=19281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19284,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19281\/revisions\/19284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}