{"id":4641,"date":"2016-06-10T16:36:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T16:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=4641"},"modified":"2016-06-10T16:47:07","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T16:47:07","slug":"fine-crop-of-insects-pollinating-hogweed-at-gunnersbury-triangle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/10\/fine-crop-of-insects-pollinating-hogweed-at-gunnersbury-triangle\/","title":{"rendered":"Fine Crop of Insects Pollinating Hogweed at Gunnersbury Triangle"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Macrophya<\/a>
Macrophya (Symphyta) mating on Hogweed: one of two mating pairs, and many individuals around in the warm sunshine this afternoon. Mating lasts for less than a minute, so the photographer has to be lucky and quick<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Small<\/a>
Small bee pollinating Hogweed (flying between flowers)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Tiny<\/a>
Tiny speckled beetle pollinating Hogweed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Rose<\/a>
Rose Chafer on Hogweed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Oedemera<\/a>
Oedemera nobilis on Hogweed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Strangalia<\/a>
Strangalia maculata longhorn beetle on Hogweed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Marvellously<\/a>
Marvellously slender long-tailed Ichneumon, on Hogweed of course (just look at that ovipositor!)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

OK, and to end, one insect NOT on Hogweed, the Small China-Mark Moth, on a Reed. It and many others of its species were fluttering about the pond, where they mate and lay eggs in waterside vegetation. I was really pleased to get the camera so close to this attractive little insect.<\/p>\n

\"Small<\/a>
Small China-Mark Moth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK, and to end, one insect NOT on Hogweed, the Small China-Mark Moth, on a Reed. It and many others of its species were fluttering about the pond, where they mate and lay eggs in waterside vegetation. I was really pleased to get the camera so close to this attractive little insect.<\/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":[712,1049,342,770,340,1050,436],"class_list":["post-4641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-history","tag-gunnersbury-triangle","tag-hogweed","tag-ichneumon","tag-macrophya","tag-oedemera-nobilis","tag-small-china-mark-moth","tag-strangalia-maculata"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641","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=4641"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4659,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641\/revisions\/4659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}