{"id":6215,"date":"2018-08-03T14:06:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T14:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=6215"},"modified":"2018-08-03T18:46:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T18:46:43","slug":"drought-baking-heat-dragonflies-thursley-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/03\/drought-baking-heat-dragonflies-thursley-common\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought, Baking Heat, Dragonflies … Thursley Common"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Black Darters in wheeL The pools were very low from a month of drought, and many of the dragonflies correspondingly distant, but this pair came obligingly close.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Keeled Skimmer male sunbathing on boardwalk. Some definitely like it hot. Ask me about poikilothermy sometime, I’ll explain it to you.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Thursley Common boardwalk, bog, pools, pines, birch scrub, distant hills. A Hobby flew up, its back rather uniformly grey-brown. Seen soaring later from the side, its moustachial stripe was conspicuous.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Bordered Grey Moth, Selidosema brunnearia (a Geometrid)\u00a0 in heather, its caterpillar’s favourite food<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Beautiful Golden Y Moth, Autographa pulchrina (a Noctuid), hiding in heather<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Robber fly on bell heather<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Small Sand Wasp, Ammophila pubescens, continually in motion on a sandy path<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Right at the end of the walk, a huge leaf-green Emperor Moth caterpillar (Saturnia pavonia<\/em>), whorled with black tufts on each segment, walked briskly like a self-propelled cylindrical concertina across the boardwalk. Just as I grabbed my camera and leant up close, it fell down the gap between two planks and disappeared into the thick green grass below. It was a sight to behold, as long and thick as a finger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Right at the end of the walk, a huge leaf-green Emperor Moth caterpillar (Saturnia pavonia), whorled with black tufts on each segment, walked briskly like a self-propelled cylindrical concertina across the boardwalk. Just as I grabbed my camera and leant up close, it fell down the gap between two planks and disappeared into the thick … Continue reading Drought, Baking Heat, Dragonflies … Thursley Common<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[1334,433,1337,814,840,170,429,875,1336,313],"class_list":["post-6215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-history","tag-beautiful-golden-y-moth","tag-black-darter","tag-bordered-grey-moth","tag-emerald-damselfly","tag-emperor-moth","tag-hobby","tag-keeled-skimmer","tag-robber-fly","tag-sand-wasp","tag-thursley-common"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6215"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6244,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215\/revisions\/6244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}