{"id":2265,"date":"2019-10-27T02:12:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T02:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/?p=2265"},"modified":"2019-10-27T02:12:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T02:12:34","slug":"a-native-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2019\/10\/27\/a-native-bee\/","title":{"rendered":"A Native Bee."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First noticed feeding on nectar in the Grevillea Burgundy, very active, flitting about and burrowing in to the nectary, quite hard to catch with the camera. The bee is Lipotriches (Austronomia) australica, it is the pollinator of the Purple Diuris, Diuris punctata, an orchid that is conserved and abundant at the cemetery grassland just a kilometre away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/bees2\/bees016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/bees2\/bees 016b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"452\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/bees2\/nectaring.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/bees2\/nectaringb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"526\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was then noticed working on the Bulbine Lilies where it was easier to snap.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/bees2\/bulbinebee009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/bees2\/bulbinebee009b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"452\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/bees2\/bulbinebee006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/bees2\/bulbinebee006b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"452\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/bees2\/bulbinebee007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/bees2\/bulbinebee007b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"452\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Click to enlarge.<br \/>\nId, thanks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Woolenook\/\">Mitch.<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First noticed feeding on nectar in the Grevillea Burgundy, very active, flitting about and burrowing in to the nectary, quite hard to catch with the camera. The bee is Lipotriches (Austronomia) australica, it is the pollinator of the Purple Diuris, Diuris punctata, an orchid that is conserved and abundant at the cemetery grassland just a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2019\/10\/27\/a-native-bee\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Native Bee.<\/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-2265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265","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=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}