{"id":57221,"date":"2025-09-17T16:49:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T21:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=57221"},"modified":"2025-09-17T17:36:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T22:36:18","slug":"elder-jas-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=57221","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Prairie Insects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Elder JA<\/strong> has requested the services of the WLBOTT research department to identify a bug he encountered on a recent Mountain Sapphire<\/a><\/em> road trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Drove to Hanna, then Consort, then home again \u2013 total of 8 hours driving \u2013 just to do 2 gigs.\u00a0 Mind you, the gigs paid a total of $749,250<\/strong> (Canadian) and the gas and meals only came to about $170 (a Papa Burger with cheese and no onions costs $9.95!)[1]<\/sup>.\u00a0 But the audiences were great and we had a good time. \u00a0\u00a0With the driving, setup, performances and teardown, that comes to about $3.63 \/ hour each, not counting the time that we took off for meals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collected some bugs on the way home.\u00a0 I swear that I heard one of them shouting to his friends, \u201cIf I had the guts, I\u2019d do that again!\u201d\u00a0I included the high resolution photos just in case Elder G<\/strong> can identify the bugs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/sup> Additional details concerning the Papa Burger<\/strong> (no onions) are pending.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Bugs in Question<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Elder G’s Analysis<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Through advanced AI techniques, Elder G<\/strong> was able to enhance the image quality from Elder JA’s<\/strong> photo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Muse Du Jour<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

For bringing the Canadian prairie insect population to our attention, Elder JA<\/strong> receives today’s WLBOTT Muse Du Jour<\/strong> award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some Out-takes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Elder JA has requested the services of the WLBOTT research department to identify a bug he encountered on a recent Mountain Sapphire road trip. Drove to Hanna, then Consort, then home again \u2013 total of 8 hours driving \u2013 just to do 2 gigs.\u00a0 Mind you, the gigs paid a total of $749,250 (Canadian) and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[47,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-of-the-elders","category-curated-absurdity"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57221"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57259,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57221\/revisions\/57259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}