{"id":3067,"date":"2015-03-12T16:23:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T16:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=3067"},"modified":"2015-03-12T16:23:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T16:23:22","slug":"angle-shades-emerging-its-springtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/12\/angle-shades-emerging-its-springtime\/","title":{"rendered":"Angle Shades Emerging (it’s springtime)"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s spring! Well, a Blackcap sang its cheerful spring song to me yesterday, in my garden, how about that, after flying all the way from Africa. Today, a Chiffchaff sang (and briefly appeared) in the nature reserve while I was working down at the frog pond.<\/p>\n

And back at home, as I was watering the garden, I saw this Angle Shades moth (Phlogophora meticulosa<\/em>, a Noctuid) in its final ecdysis, inflating its wings from their crumpled state inside the overwintering pupa. It was on the pipe insulation of the garden tap.<\/p>\n

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Angle Shades, wings about to inflate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Angle Shades, wings nearly inflated<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Presumably the moth’s body clock said “It’s spring”. Amazing to watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s spring! Well, a Blackcap sang its cheerful spring song to me yesterday, in my garden, how about that, after flying all the way from Africa. Today, a Chiffchaff sang (and briefly appeared) in the nature reserve while I was working down at the frog pond. And back at home, as I was watering the … Continue reading Angle Shades Emerging (it’s springtime)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3070,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067\/revisions\/3070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}