{"id":3472,"date":"2021-09-04T11:17:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T01:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/?p=3472"},"modified":"2021-09-04T11:17:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T01:17:30","slug":"spring-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2021\/09\/04\/spring-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring."},"content":{"rendered":"

A warm day gave impetus to put out the moth light, few moths came in, but there were plenty of other insects to keep the camera busy. Of particular interest was the first damselfly sighting for the season, a teneral Blue Ringtail, Austrolestes annulosus. Damselflies and dragonflies are occasional visitors to the moth light, click to enlarge.<\/p>\n

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Chironomids or non biting midges often come to the light, click.<\/p>\n

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Two more similar sized insects, identity unsure at this stage.<\/p>\n

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Wasps are on the move again this one has an unusual bearded face.<\/p>\n

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Commonly to the light is this Ichneumonid wasp in the genus Ophion.<\/p>\n

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A mating pair.<\/p>\n

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To conclude, a small, 13mm, green lacewing, probably Mallada signatus.<\/p>\n

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A warm day gave impetus to put out the moth light, few moths came in, but there were plenty of other insects to keep the camera busy. Of particular interest was the first damselfly sighting for the season, a teneral Blue Ringtail, Austrolestes annulosus. Damselflies and dragonflies are occasional visitors to the moth light, click … Continue reading Spring.<\/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-3472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472","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=3472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}