{"id":997,"date":"2018-01-05T04:13:35","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T04:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/?p=997"},"modified":"2018-01-05T04:14:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T04:14:43","slug":"the-native-garden-ecosystem-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2018\/01\/05\/the-native-garden-ecosystem-5\/","title":{"rendered":"The Native Garden Ecosystem #5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden4\/baeckea.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden4\/baeckeabl.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Baeckea is still flowering and attracting large numbers of insects. While flies of many kinds are the most numerous, this species, Bibio imitator was very much out of the ordinary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden4\/bib.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden4\/bibbl.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wasps of several species are also nectaring, the yellow flower wasps shown in the previous post are still about although males only, the females have dropped off to lay their eggs. Bluebottles, Diamma bicolor are a common sight as they wander about in search of the mole crickets that they parasitise, but this was the first occasion the camera caught one feeding on nectar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden4\/bluebottle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden4\/bluebottlebl.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden4\/bluebottle2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden4\/bluebottle2bl.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lissopimpla excelsa is commonly known as the orchid dupe wasp, it is the pollinator for all five species of Cryptostylis orchids, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lissopimpla_excelsa\">(Wikipedia.)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden4\/wasp02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden4\/wasp02bl.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden4\/wasp03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden4\/wasp03bl.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"361\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another of the many flower wasps.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden4\/wasp1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden4\/wasp1bl.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All those flies make the Baeckea a happy hunting ground for this small lynx spider.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden4\/spider1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden4\/spider1bl.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden4\/spider2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden4\/spider2bl.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Click to enlarge.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Baeckea is still flowering and attracting large numbers of insects. While flies of many kinds are the most numerous, this species, Bibio imitator was very much out of the ordinary. Wasps of several species are also nectaring, the yellow flower wasps shown in the previous post are still about although males only, the females &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2018\/01\/05\/the-native-garden-ecosystem-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Native Garden Ecosystem #5<\/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-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","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=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}