{"id":1892,"date":"2019-03-25T22:18:13","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T22:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/?p=1892"},"modified":"2019-03-25T22:18:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T22:18:13","slug":"insect-magnets-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2019\/03\/25\/insect-magnets-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Insect Magnets #2."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Xerochrysums continue to produce new flowers and the insects keep coming. One<br \/>\ntattered-wing Painted Lady fed ravenously and paid scant attention to the human as he<br \/>\nmoved around seeking the best photographic angles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden14\/pl1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden14\/pl1b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"773\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden14\/pl2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden14\/pl2b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"745\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden14\/pl3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden14\/pl3b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"766\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More than one contact has remarked on the number of Blue-banded Bees that have been about this season, and coinciding with this are frequent sightings of Cuckoo Bees that lay their eggs in the Blue-banded&#8217;s nests.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden14\/cbee1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden14\/cbee1b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"673\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden14\/cbee2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden14\/cbee2b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden14\/cbee3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden14\/cbee3b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"742\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Flower wasps of several different types have still been active as the season winds down.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden14\/fwasp2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden14\/fwasp2b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"566\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden14\/swasp1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden14\/swasp1b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"571\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden14\/swasp2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden14\/swasp2b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"552\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden14\/swasp3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden14\/swasp3b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"447\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Click to enlarge.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Xerochrysums continue to produce new flowers and the insects keep coming. One tattered-wing Painted Lady fed ravenously and paid scant attention to the human as he moved around seeking the best photographic angles. More than one contact has remarked on the number of Blue-banded Bees that have been about this season, and coinciding with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2019\/03\/25\/insect-magnets-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Insect Magnets #2.<\/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-1892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892","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=1892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}