{"id":3673,"date":"2022-01-24T09:03:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T22:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/?p=3673"},"modified":"2022-01-24T09:03:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T22:03:10","slug":"at-the-bee-hotel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2022\/01\/24\/at-the-bee-hotel-2\/","title":{"rendered":"At The Bee Hotel #2."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strangely, in a season when a lot of the usual wasps seen in the garden have been largely absent, a species not previously observed has appeared, namely a species in the genus Pison. Several are working busily, nesting in the bamboos and red gum block.<\/p>\n<p>Sealing the entrance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix29\/pwasp.jpg\" width=\"702\" height=\"528\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix29\/pwasp1.jpg\" width=\"702\" height=\"686\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix29\/pwasp2.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"578\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix29\/pwasp3.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"531\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Job done.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix29\/waspseal.jpg\" width=\"704\" height=\"552\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another individual at its nest hole.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix29\/pwasp4.jpg\" width=\"702\" height=\"581\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix29\/pwasp5.jpg\" width=\"702\" height=\"521\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Next afternoon, sealing up.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix29\/seal2.jpg\" width=\"704\" height=\"554\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And back to the first wasp, second nest on the go beside the first.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix29\/hole2.jpg\" width=\"702\" height=\"689\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stocking the larder with a spider, first of two seen going in..<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix29\/prey.jpg\" width=\"702\" height=\"636\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While the wasps and bees are mostly observed going in head first, occasionally they will reverse in, the reason probably being to lay an egg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strangely, in a season when a lot of the usual wasps seen in the garden have been largely absent, a species not previously observed has appeared, namely a species in the genus Pison. Several are working busily, nesting in the bamboos and red gum block. Sealing the entrance. Job done. Another individual at its nest &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2022\/01\/24\/at-the-bee-hotel-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">At The Bee Hotel #2.<\/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-3673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673","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=3673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3744,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673\/revisions\/3744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}