{"id":3038,"date":"2021-01-21T14:06:47","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T03:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/?p=3038"},"modified":"2021-01-21T14:06:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T03:06:47","slug":"bees-plus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2021\/01\/21\/bees-plus-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bees Plus."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the garden the Eucalyptus parramattensis has been in flower, with the snowy white blossom drawing in a range of insects. One was a new bee record bringing the garden total up to fifteen species recorded. It is Leioproctus amabilis, the Lovable Leioproctus, a female collecting the white pollen. A smaller unidentified species was also working.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/bees3\/ama2.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"821\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/bees3\/ama1.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"745\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/bees3\/ama3.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"737\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Unidentified due to lack of detail.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/bees3\/bee2005.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"501\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A trip to the Marlay Point area to check the flowering Bursarias for insect life was rewarded with another bee species photographed for the first time. It is the Bright-tailed Resin Bee, Megachile lucidiventris.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/bees3\/bee1.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"727\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/bees3\/bee3.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"860\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/bees3\/bee2.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"653\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another first record was made at the wood heap, when a tiny Pseudoscorpion, Family Chernetidae, came out from a crevice. These prey on other small invertebrates, immobilising them with venom from their nipper glands.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/bees3\/pseu1.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"553\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/bees3\/pseu2.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"795\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the garden the Eucalyptus parramattensis has been in flower, with the snowy white blossom drawing in a range of insects. One was a new bee record bringing the garden total up to fifteen species recorded. It is Leioproctus amabilis, the Lovable Leioproctus, a female collecting the white pollen. A smaller unidentified species was also &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2021\/01\/21\/bees-plus-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bees Plus.<\/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-3038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038","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=3038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}