{"id":3182,"date":"2015-04-17T21:59:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T21:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=3182"},"modified":"2015-04-17T21:59:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T21:59:36","slug":"snail-egg-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/17\/snail-egg-pattern\/","title":{"rendered":"Snail Egg Pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3183\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3183\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20150417-Snail-Eggs-on-Leaf-in-Gunnersbury-Triangle-Pond-DETAIL.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3183\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20150417-Snail-Eggs-on-Leaf-in-Gunnersbury-Triangle-Pond-DETAIL-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"Snail Eggs in Pond\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20150417-Snail-Eggs-on-Leaf-in-Gunnersbury-Triangle-Pond-DETAIL-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20150417-Snail-Eggs-on-Leaf-in-Gunnersbury-Triangle-Pond-DETAIL-1024x787.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20150417-Snail-Eggs-on-Leaf-in-Gunnersbury-Triangle-Pond-DETAIL.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3183\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snail Eggs in Pond<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Walking past the main pond, my eye was caught by a striking pattern reminiscent of a brain coral. Lying down on the boardwalk to get the diminutive lens of my phone camera as close to the pond surface as possible, the squiggles resolved themselves into long patterns of jelly divided mostly into hexagonal areolae like miniature cells in a honeycomb, each with a white boundary and a tiny yellow egg at its centre.<\/p>\n<p>At the top left of the photo is a large Ramshorn Snail: several others were nearby, so they are the likely culprits. Generally pond snail egg masses (as laid by the large pointy-spiral pond snail <em>Limnaea<\/em>) are small, undistinguished jelly-blobs, so these large, impressive structures were a surprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking past the main pond, my eye was caught by a striking pattern reminiscent of a brain coral. Lying down on the boardwalk to get the diminutive lens of my phone camera as close to the pond surface as possible, the squiggles resolved themselves into long patterns of jelly divided mostly into hexagonal areolae like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/17\/snail-egg-pattern\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Snail Egg Pattern<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[90,388],"tags":[760,22,759],"class_list":["post-3182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-history","category-natural-patterns","tag-pond-life","tag-ramshorn-pond-snail","tag-snail-eggs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182","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=3182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3184,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions\/3184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}