{"id":240,"date":"2009-06-04T14:46:33","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T19:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rdnhs.org.uk\/blog\/?p=240"},"modified":"2009-06-04T14:51:26","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T19:51:26","slug":"bombus-hypnorum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdnhs.org.uk\/blog\/bombus-hypnorum\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombus hypnorum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the 2nd June 2009 I was pottering about in the garden when I noticed an unusual bumblebee nectaring on the <em>Geraniums<\/em>. It was obviously different from all other bumbles because it had the completely ginger-haired thorax of something like the Common Carder bee (<em>Bombus pasuorum<\/em>) but instead of having a ginger or blackish abdomen the abdomen was jet black with a starkly contrasting white tail.<\/p>\n<p>A quick text to a Matt Smith, an entomologist friend, confirmed my initial thoughts &#8211; <em>Bombus hypnorum<\/em>, a recent addition to the British list from the continent. Matt had a record from the Reading area already but it is a species that is just starting to appear in our area so it is still pretty rare.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have any photos &#8211; it flew away before I could grab my camera &#8211; but if you follow this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bwars.com\/bombus_hypnorum.htm\" target=\"_blank\">BWARS link<\/a> you should get some pictures of this species. Hopefully my bumble is nesting nearby and I will get some photos later in the year! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 2nd June 2009 I was pottering about in the garden when I noticed an unusual bumblebee nectaring on the Geraniums. It was obviously&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_customify_content_layout":"","_customify_sidebar":"","_customify_page_header_display":"","_customify_disable_header":"","_customify_disable_header_top":"","_customify_disable_header_main":"","_customify_disable_header_bottom":"","_customify_disable_page_title":"","_customify_disable_content_vertical_padding":"","_customify_disable_footer_top":"","_customify_disable_footer_main":"","_customify_disable_footer_bottom":"","_customify_breadcrumb_display":"","_customify_header_transparent_display":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildlife-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdnhs.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdnhs.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdnhs.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdnhs.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdnhs.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rdnhs.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/rdnhs.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdnhs.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdnhs.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdnhs.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}