{"id":5572,"date":"2017-11-14T16:52:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T16:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=5572"},"modified":"2017-11-16T16:08:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T16:08:20","slug":"pond-skimming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/14\/pond-skimming\/","title":{"rendered":"Pond-Skimming Reveals Hornwort, Newts, Pondweed, Water Scorpion, Leeches"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pond-skimming. Netty is rescuing pondweed and animals especially damselfly nymphs to return them to the water.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We spent the time skimming off as much of the duckweed that was blanketing the surface of the pond as possible using pole nets. The idea is to let light filter down to the bottom of the pond to encourage the more delicate pondweeds. In the process, we had a good opportunity to check the status of some of the pond life that we don’t usually get to see, as the underwater plants are rather few beside the boardwalk – most likely because the continual sampling keeps them from growing much. But the rest of the pond is another story.<\/p>\n

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Rigid Hornwort, its shoots stiff as if covered in limescale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Canadian pondweed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Damselfly nymph with leaflike tail appendages<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A stubby damselfly nymph with spiky tail appendages<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There were at least two kinds of damselfly nymph, possibly bluetail and azure damselflies, judging by a pondside look at the book without a handlens. The little camera in close-up mode is just about capable of resolving detail at this scale, given good light. The various damselfly nymphs have differently-shaped tail appendages, which the book says are diagnostic.<\/p>\n

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Leaflike tail appendages of a long slender damselfly nymph, with feathery venation just about visible: I must have a look with the microscope and book!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We also caught a newt or two. We carefully put all the minibeasts and interesting bits of pondweed back in the water.<\/p>\n

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Hoglouse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Leech on finger 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Leech on finger 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A fine big Water Scorpion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We spent the time skimming off as much of the duckweed that was blanketing the surface of the pond as possible using pole nets. The idea is to let light filter down to the bottom of the pond to encourage the more delicate pondweeds. In the process, we had a good opportunity to check the … Continue reading Pond-Skimming Reveals Hornwort, Newts, Pondweed, Water Scorpion, Leeches<\/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":[14,90],"tags":[1221,222,1220,712,533,1166,697,1218,435],"class_list":["post-5572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-natural-history","tag-canadian-pondweed","tag-damselfly-nymph","tag-damselfly-nymph-identification","tag-gunnersbury-triangle","tag-hoglouse","tag-leech","tag-pond","tag-rigid-hornwort","tag-water-scorpion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572","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=5572"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5616,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572\/revisions\/5616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}