{"id":2716,"date":"2020-09-17T10:20:46","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T00:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/?p=2716"},"modified":"2020-09-17T10:20:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T00:20:46","slug":"allsorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2020\/09\/17\/allsorts\/","title":{"rendered":"Allsorts."},"content":{"rendered":"

So far moths are the main visitors to the light with other photogenic insects scarce, this Chironomid was worth a shot to show the beautiful antennae..<\/p>\n

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While waiting for moths to arrive, a wander around the trees with a torch is worth while. Normally one sees slaters in decaying vegetable matter in the garden, but on this occasion quite a number were roaming around on the trunk of a red gum.<\/p>\n

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The red gums are favoured habitat for these small spiders in the family Theridiidae.<\/p>\n

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On a windy day this Limoniid Crane Fly was clinging on in a sheltered spot.<\/p>\n

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A random check of a flowering Broom shrub in the neighbouring garden showed that native bees are only too happy to collect pollen from this exotic garden plant.<\/p>\n

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And in another surprise, Jotus frosti that were discovered living in the agapanthus next door have apparently decided that the house is a good place to hang out.<\/p>\n

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So far moths are the main visitors to the light with other photogenic insects scarce, this Chironomid was worth a shot to show the beautiful antennae.. While waiting for moths to arrive, a wander around the trees with a torch is worth while. Normally one sees slaters in decaying vegetable matter in the garden, but … Continue reading Allsorts.<\/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-2716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716","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=2716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}