{"id":3378,"date":"2015-07-03T15:44:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T15:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=3378"},"modified":"2015-07-03T15:57:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T15:57:00","slug":"wetland-centre-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/03\/wetland-centre-bugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Wetland Centre Bugs"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Dabchick<\/a>
Dabchick, with wiggly reflections<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I wasn’t really birding but it was nice to see a little cloud of House Martins flycatching, and a richly dressed Dabchick diving for food.<\/p>\n

Foamy wisps of scented Meadowsweet flowers were visited by honeybees; a Strangalia maculata<\/em> longhorn beetle (it doesn’t have an English name, but it’s not the one usually called Wasp Beetle) clambered slowly over the flowerheads. It looks reasonably wasplike, if not terribly convincingly; it would be interesting to know if it is itself foul-tasting and hence actually aposematic, or just hitching a free ride through Batesian mimicry.<\/p>\n

\"Strangalia<\/a>
Strangalia maculata, a waspish longhorn beetle, on Meadowsweet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Bee<\/a>
Bee on Bramble flower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Wetland Centre was very sunny, a little windy for butterflies (only Small Skipper, Red Admiral and Green-Veined White) but with the bees buzzing around the many flowers, very attractive. Several Orchids were in bloom, including purple and pyramidal. Even the different bindweeds looked wonderful. A pair of Mute Swans rested calmly with a cygnet or two at the bronze feet of Sir Peter Scott.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
A teneral (new) darter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The dragonflies included one Black-tailed Skimmer, sunning itself on a “wildside” path; several blue hawkers, probably Hairy Dragonflies; an Emperor; a teneral darter, probably Common Darter; masses of blue damselflies – all the ones I managed to check were Azure Damselfly; and a few Common Bluetail damselflies.<\/p>\n

\"Immature<\/a><\/p>\n

Immature male Common Bluetail damselfly<\/p>\n

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I wasn’t really birding but it was nice to see a little cloud of House Martins flycatching, and a richly dressed Dabchick diving for food. Foamy wisps of scented Meadowsweet flowers were visited by honeybees; a Strangalia maculata longhorn beetle (it doesn’t have an English name, but it’s not the one usually called Wasp Beetle) … Continue reading Wetland Centre Bugs<\/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":[90,388,6],"tags":[368,797,496,428,798,734,271,436],"class_list":["post-3378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-history","category-natural-patterns","category-wildlife","tag-azure-damselfly","tag-common-bluetail","tag-common-darter","tag-emperor-dragonfly","tag-hairy-dragonfly","tag-longhorn-beetle","tag-mimicry","tag-strangalia-maculata"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378","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=3378"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3391,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions\/3391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}