{"id":1842,"date":"2019-03-13T00:19:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T00:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2019-03-13T00:30:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T00:30:41","slug":"insect-magnets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2019\/03\/13\/insect-magnets\/","title":{"rendered":"Insect Magnets."},"content":{"rendered":"

Referring to the Xerochrysums of course, planted as previously noted to attract butterflies, but until now, despite frequent checking, bringing in anything but. Finally, a small grey butterfly settled that at first glance was thought to be a Common Grass Blue, but closer inspection showed it to be the Two-Spotted Line-Blue, Nacaduba biocellata.<\/p>\n

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Native bees and wasps of many different species have been constant visitors to the flowers. On a cool morning with\u00a0 thick smoke haze this male bee, Lipotriches australica slept late in a partially opened flower, held in place by its gripping mandibles.<\/p>\n

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Although we’re into autumn quite a few native bees are still hard at work, like this tattered-winged Lasioglossum lanarium that worked several flowers.<\/p>\n

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Flower wasps are great pollinators, for example this Australelis anthracina anthracina.<\/p>\n

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Click to enlarge.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Referring to the Xerochrysums of course, planted as previously noted to attract butterflies, but until now, despite frequent checking, bringing in anything but. Finally, a small grey butterfly settled that at first glance was thought to be a Common Grass Blue, but closer inspection showed it to be the Two-Spotted Line-Blue, Nacaduba biocellata. Native bees … Continue reading Insect Magnets.<\/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-1842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842","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=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}