{"id":4511,"date":"2025-03-03T13:31:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T02:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/?p=4511"},"modified":"2025-03-03T13:31:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T02:31:17","slug":"a-welcome-sighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2025\/03\/03\/a-welcome-sighting\/","title":{"rendered":"A Welcome Sighting."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Native bees plus a host of other insects have been extremely scarce in the garden this season, with one exception. Blue-banded Bees which have been hard to find for a couple of seasons at least have been quite numerous, visiting the vanilla lily plants which are allowed to run rampant in a raised bed just for this species. A chance but welcome encounter was this Megachile maculariformis, working over the flowers of a Westringia fruiticosa, just two photos were obtained, but more can be seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2020\/11\/09\/a-native-bee-2\/\">here<\/a>, taken on the same shrub five years ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/autumn25\/bee1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/autumn25\/bee1b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"670\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/autumn25\/bee2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/autumn25\/bee2b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"705\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Native bees plus a host of other insects have been extremely scarce in the garden this season, with one exception. Blue-banded Bees which have been hard to find for a couple of seasons at least have been quite numerous, visiting the vanilla lily plants which are allowed to run rampant in a raised bed just &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2025\/03\/03\/a-welcome-sighting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Welcome Sighting.<\/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-4511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4511","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=4511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4514,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4511\/revisions\/4514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}