{"id":1192,"date":"2018-04-23T04:33:44","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T04:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2018-04-23T04:33:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T04:33:44","slug":"texture-colour-and-creatures-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2018\/04\/23\/texture-colour-and-creatures-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Texture, Colour, and Creatures #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sugar Ants are moving up and down constantly, gathering nectar from the flowers and honey dew from hoppers up in the canopy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden6\/sug1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden6\/sug1bl.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"343\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden6\/sug2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden6\/sug2bl.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"346\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A lot come to grief, and can be seen snared in spider webs. This one has been harvested by an ant in the Rhytidoponera genus.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden6\/harvest1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden6\/harvest1bl.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"352\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden6\/rhyt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden6\/rhytbl.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden6\/rhyt2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden6\/rhyt2bl.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the process of gathering these pictures a hitherto unnoticed ant species was discovered.<br \/>\nThis ant is 10-12 mm long.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden6\/bull.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden6\/bullbl.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And to conclude this series on tree trunk dwellers, an unidentified larva and a Clerid beetle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden6\/grub.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden6\/grubbl.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden6\/clerid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden6\/cleridbl.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"419\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Click to enlarge.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sugar Ants are moving up and down constantly, gathering nectar from the flowers and honey dew from hoppers up in the canopy. A lot come to grief, and can be seen snared in spider webs. This one has been harvested by an ant in the Rhytidoponera genus. In the process of gathering these pictures a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2018\/04\/23\/texture-colour-and-creatures-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Texture, Colour, and Creatures #3<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}