{"id":775,"date":"2017-09-30T06:21:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T06:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/?p=775"},"modified":"2021-08-07T10:07:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T00:07:55","slug":"bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2017\/09\/30\/bees\/","title":{"rendered":"Bees."},"content":{"rendered":"

Every spring it’s always good to see the first native bees appear, and on a visit to a patch of native grassland, Lasioglossum lanarium was spotted on one of the few Billy Buttons flowering in the drought-dry ground.<\/p>\n

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Along the rail trail where the ground is also parched, some of the Grey Parrot-pea is in flower attracting the odd pollen gathering Lasioglossum calophyllae.<\/p>\n

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At home in the garden the same species is harvesting its pollen from the Gold Dust Wattle.<\/p>\n

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Also busily working the wattle is a third Lasioglossum species, subgenus Homalictus.<\/p>\n

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Click to enlarge.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Every spring it’s always good to see the first native bees appear, and on a visit to a patch of native grassland, Lasioglossum lanarium was spotted on one of the few Billy Buttons flowering in the drought-dry ground. Along the rail trail where the ground is also parched, some of the Grey Parrot-pea is in … Continue reading Bees.<\/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-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","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=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}