{"id":3333,"date":"2015-06-18T19:24:21","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T19:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=3333"},"modified":"2015-07-26T09:28:07","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T09:28:07","slug":"small-skipper-migrant-hawker-and-more-at-gunnersbury-triangle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/18\/small-skipper-migrant-hawker-and-more-at-gunnersbury-triangle\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Skipper, Migrant Hawker and more at Gunnersbury Triangle"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had a lovely day down the reserve in the warm sunshine with a gentle breeze. We dug out an unwanted post with extreme use of pickaxe, crowbar and shovel, and thus refreshed did the butterfly transect. It found a Red Admiral, some Speckled Woods, wonder of wonders a Small Skipper (the second Skipper species this week), a Meadow Brown (not common here), and a Green-Veined White. Not a bad haul. And a lot of Peacock caterpillars, if those count!<\/p>\n

\"Small<\/a>
Small Skipper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Wasp<\/a>
Wasp Beetle (Strangalia maculata)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Ladybird<\/a>
Ladybird Larva<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Migrant<\/a>
Migrant Hawker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Two-Spot<\/a>
Two-Spot Ladybird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Eat<\/a>
Eat me if you dare – Aposematic caterpillars of Peacock Butterfly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Neuropteran<\/a>
Neuropteran (Lacewing) larva \u2013 note the forceps-like mandibles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"'Marmalade'<\/a>
Macrophya sawfly dorsal view<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had a lovely day down the reserve in the warm sunshine with a gentle breeze. We dug out an unwanted post with extreme use of pickaxe, crowbar and shovel, and thus refreshed did the butterfly transect. It found a Red Admiral, some Speckled Woods, wonder of wonders a Small Skipper (the second Skipper species … Continue reading Small Skipper, Migrant Hawker and more at Gunnersbury Triangle<\/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":[90,6],"tags":[178,712,789,770,507,126,434,436,788],"class_list":["post-3333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-history","category-wildlife","tag-2-spot-ladybird","tag-gunnersbury-triangle","tag-lacewing-larva","tag-macrophya","tag-migrant-hawker","tag-peacock-butterfly","tag-small-skipper","tag-strangalia-maculata","tag-wasp-beetle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333","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=3333"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3489,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333\/revisions\/3489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}