{"id":4036,"date":"2022-12-28T14:00:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T03:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/?p=4036"},"modified":"2022-12-28T14:00:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T03:00:05","slug":"summer-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2022\/12\/28\/summer-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wasps have been very scarce this season, with flower wasps and sand wasps conspicuous by their absence. There have been a small number of spider hunting wasps in the subfamily Pepsinae checking out the tree trunks for prey. This one had captured a Clubiona spider and was haunting an outdoors chair where it may have had a nest.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix31\/wasp1.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"772\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix31\/wasp2b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"795\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A harmless and attractive native cockroach, Ellipsidion australe.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix31\/cockroach.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"518\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A juvenile white-tailed spider,Lampona species, the white body markings fade with age.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix31\/lampona.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"548\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The majority of the damsels in the garden are Wandering Ringtails, Austrolestes leda, but there is also the odd Blue Ringtail, Austrolestes annulosus.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix31\/ringtail.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"477\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This fly has so far failed to get an identification on Inat.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix31\/fly.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"804\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wasps have been very scarce this season, with flower wasps and sand wasps conspicuous by their absence. There have been a small number of spider hunting wasps in the subfamily Pepsinae checking out the tree trunks for prey. This one had captured a Clubiona spider and was haunting an outdoors chair where it may have &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2022\/12\/28\/summer-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Summer #3<\/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-4036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036","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=4036"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4080,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036\/revisions\/4080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}