{"id":923,"date":"2017-12-01T02:49:52","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T02:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/?p=923"},"modified":"2017-12-01T02:49:52","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T02:49:52","slug":"the-native-garden-ecosystem-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2017\/12\/01\/the-native-garden-ecosystem-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Native Garden Ecosystem #3"},"content":{"rendered":"

More invertebrate life from the garden.<\/p>\n

Native bees are visiting two of their favourite plants, the Bulbine and Vanilla Lilies to collect pollen to provision their breeding burrows.<\/p>\n

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The Blue-banded Bee is a buzz pollinator that often pauses for just a split second, this was a lucky shot that froze that split second on the Derwent Speedwell.<\/p>\n

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Golden Drone Flies are handsome insects that appear in the garden at this time of year.<\/p>\n

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As do the Black-faced Perchers, Diplacodes melanopsis.<\/p>\n

Male.<\/p>\n

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Female.<\/p>\n

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The Golden Green Stag Beetle, Lamprima aurata is always a delight to see, two were found a few days apart, the second taking advantage of the cool tiles on a 38 degree day.<\/p>\n

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Robber Flies are showing up. This was a very large impressive species, for comparison, the brick joint is 12 mm.<\/p>\n

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Mantis egg cases are found occasionally in the garden shrubs. The smaller green species are common insects, less so this large species found enjoying a butterfly meal in the pink-flowered Callistemon sieberi.<\/p>\n

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Down on the ground the sand wasps are busy excavating nest tunnels, this one was just beginning.<\/p>\n

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

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More invertebrate life from the garden. Native bees are visiting two of their favourite plants, the Bulbine and Vanilla Lilies to collect pollen to provision their breeding burrows. The Blue-banded Bee is a buzz pollinator that often pauses for just a split second, this was a lucky shot that froze that split second on the … Continue reading The Native Garden Ecosystem #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-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923","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=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}