{"id":3999,"date":"2022-11-16T12:13:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T01:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/?p=3999"},"modified":"2022-11-16T12:13:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T01:13:15","slug":"late-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2022\/11\/16\/late-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Spring."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A range of issues including the continuing cool damp weather have made subjects for nature photography hard to come by, however here are a few taken over the last couple of months. Firstly our old friend the Two-tailed Spider, Tamopsis species, these camouflage masters can be found on the tree trunks pretty much throughout the year. The first is blending in well, while the second had moved from its lair where it was lurking on a dark spot on the bark.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/spring5\/tam1.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"760\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/spring5\/tam2.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For some reason correas seem to be a reliable place to find juvenile Ellipsidion cockroaches.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/spring5\/roach.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"508\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Flying insects are still very scarce, but there are a few\u00a0 hoverflies about and pollinating.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/spring5\/hover.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"528\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On rare sunny days garden skinks come out to warm themselves on the tiles.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/spring5\/liz.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"385\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A couple of moth larvae, Urocoma baliolalis, the Browntail Gum Moth.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/spring5\/uro.jpg\" width=\"702\" height=\"784\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And the Australian Bag Moth, Cebysa leucotelus, click to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/moths19\/winmoth.jpg\">beautiful adult.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/spring5\/case.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"518\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A range of issues including the continuing cool damp weather have made subjects for nature photography hard to come by, however here are a few taken over the last couple of months. Firstly our old friend the Two-tailed Spider, Tamopsis species, these camouflage masters can be found on the tree trunks pretty much throughout the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2022\/11\/16\/late-spring\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Late 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-3999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999","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=3999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4009,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999\/revisions\/4009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}