{"id":3890,"date":"2022-04-18T10:25:44","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T00:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/?p=3890"},"modified":"2022-04-18T11:14:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T01:14:10","slug":"along-the-creek-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2022\/04\/18\/along-the-creek-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Along The Creek."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A walk seeking the Autumn Dragonfly was unsuccessful, and other subjects were hard to come by, however persistence finally paid off. Verbena bonariensis is a garden escape that has become widely naturalised, and occurs along the local river and creek. It is not a problem and is in fact a nectar resource for butterflies and other insects, this Yellow-banded Dart was taking advantage of a plant in the shady understory.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix31\/dart1b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"685\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix31\/dart2b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"688\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A few Common Brown butterflies are still on the wing, and the remains of one dangling from a spider web invited a closer look. The St. Andrew&#8217;s Cross spider is often seen in its shapely orb web complete with cross shaped stabilimentum, this very large female&#8217;s web was just an untidy tangle low to the ground in tall grass.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix31\/orb1b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"868\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix31\/orb2b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"757\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix31\/orb3b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"803\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A walk seeking the Autumn Dragonfly was unsuccessful, and other subjects were hard to come by, however persistence finally paid off. Verbena bonariensis is a garden escape that has become widely naturalised, and occurs along the local river and creek. It is not a problem and is in fact a nectar resource for butterflies and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2022\/04\/18\/along-the-creek-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Along The Creek.<\/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-3890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890","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=3890"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3910,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890\/revisions\/3910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}