{"id":3822,"date":"2022-03-07T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/?p=3822"},"modified":"2022-03-10T10:25:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T23:25:58","slug":"more-odds-and-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2022\/03\/07\/more-odds-and-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"More Odds and Ends."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago a Union Jack Wolf Spider excavated a home burrow in the strawberry bed, and since then has grown steadily in size. The diameter of the burrow is now 30 mm, and the impressive spider spends quite a bit of time enjoying the sun at the entrance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix31\/wolf.jpg\" width=\"702\" height=\"627\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Braconid wasps are still seeking caterpillars for larvae food on the tree trunks.<\/p>\n<p>Genus Bracon.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix31\/wasp2.jpg\" width=\"702\" height=\"853\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Callibracon capitator.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix31\/waspd.jpg\" width=\"702\" height=\"798\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix31\/waspl.jpg\" width=\"702\" height=\"742\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Leaves on the Eucalyptus parramattensis have been neatly scalloped.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix31\/leaf.jpg\" width=\"702\" height=\"231\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t take long to find the culprits, several hanging out together.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix31\/beetles.jpg\" width=\"702\" height=\"490\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Yellow-winged Locust, Gastrimargus musicus sat calmly for the snapshot.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix31\/ywl.jpg\" width=\"702\" height=\"444\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In to the moth light as if to celebrate the rain, a Giant Water Beetle, Hydrophilus latipalpus.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix31\/wb1.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"518\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And a Mayfly species, Order Ephemeroptera.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/\/pix31\/uk22.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago a Union Jack Wolf Spider excavated a home burrow in the strawberry bed, and since then has grown steadily in size. The diameter of the burrow is now 30 mm, and the impressive spider spends quite a bit of time enjoying the sun at the entrance. Braconid wasps are still seeking &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2022\/03\/07\/more-odds-and-ends\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More Odds and Ends.<\/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-3822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3822","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=3822"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3837,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3822\/revisions\/3837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}