{"id":2411,"date":"2020-01-21T05:38:16","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T05:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/?p=2411"},"modified":"2020-01-22T08:00:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T08:00:43","slug":"after-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2020\/01\/21\/after-the-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"After The Rain."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sunny day after very welcome rain saw the Sannantha pluriflora come up with the goods. Flies had been the main insects frequenting the flowers up until now, but they had thinned out, and other insects were welcome subjects for the camera after a period with little to see. A breeze made things difficult but perseverance paid off.<\/p>\n<p>A Common Grass Blue nectaring.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix16\/blue2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix16\/blue2b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"812\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Hatchet Wasp, Evaniidae family was a nice visitor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix16\/hatchet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix16\/hatchetb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"510\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A brilliant Zebra Wasp, Turneromyia sp.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix16\/banded.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix16\/bandedb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"606\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two native bee parasites, Gasteruptiidae family were\u00a0 in attendance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix16\/wasp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix16\/waspb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"594\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix16\/beewasp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix16\/beewaspb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"857\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As were Banded Beeflies, Villa sp.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix16\/beefly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix16\/beeflyb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"638\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix16\/beefly2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix16\/beefly2b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"712\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Drone Fly was too elusive, as was a native bee and a few others but there&#8217;s always another day. Click pictures to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sunny day after very welcome rain saw the Sannantha pluriflora come up with the goods. Flies had been the main insects frequenting the flowers up until now, but they had thinned out, and other insects were welcome subjects for the camera after a period with little to see. A breeze made things difficult but &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2020\/01\/21\/after-the-rain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">After The Rain.<\/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-2411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411","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=2411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}