{"id":6611,"date":"2018-11-08T16:48:28","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T16:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=6611"},"modified":"2018-11-08T16:53:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T16:53:24","slug":"willow-emerald-damselfly-eggs-in-willow-twig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/willow-emerald-damselfly-eggs-in-willow-twig\/","title":{"rendered":"Willow Emerald Damselfly Eggs in Willow Twig"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6612\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6612\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DSCN6514-Willow-Emerald-Eggs-in-Willow-Twigs.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6612\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DSCN6514-Willow-Emerald-Eggs-in-Willow-Twigs-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DSCN6514-Willow-Emerald-Eggs-in-Willow-Twigs-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DSCN6514-Willow-Emerald-Eggs-in-Willow-Twigs-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DSCN6514-Willow-Emerald-Eggs-in-Willow-Twigs-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DSCN6514-Willow-Emerald-Eggs-in-Willow-Twigs-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DSCN6514-Willow-Emerald-Eggs-in-Willow-Twigs.jpg 1521w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6612\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Willow Emerald Damselfly Eggs in Willow Twig. The female cuts a slit in the bark for each egg. The cuts have healed up (by now, November) leaving a bump around each egg.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6495\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6495\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSCN6180-Willow-Emerald-Damselfly-Kew.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6495\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSCN6180-Willow-Emerald-Damselfly-Kew-1024x846.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSCN6180-Willow-Emerald-Damselfly-Kew-1024x846.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSCN6180-Willow-Emerald-Damselfly-Kew-150x124.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSCN6180-Willow-Emerald-Damselfly-Kew-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSCN6180-Willow-Emerald-Damselfly-Kew-768x634.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSCN6180-Willow-Emerald-Damselfly-Kew.jpg 1650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Willow Emerald Damselfly (photographed earlier this year). The species is very new to Britain, having arrived last year or not long before that; and this year is the first time we&#8217;ve seen them at Gunnersbury Triangle, so it&#8217;s very exciting to see the unique egg-laying traces!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6615\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6615\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Netty-with-glorious-autumnal-Aspen-twig.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6615\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Netty-with-glorious-autumnal-Aspen-twig-834x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Netty-with-glorious-autumnal-Aspen-twig-834x1024.jpg 834w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Netty-with-glorious-autumnal-Aspen-twig-122x150.jpg 122w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Netty-with-glorious-autumnal-Aspen-twig-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Netty-with-glorious-autumnal-Aspen-twig-768x943.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Netty-with-glorious-autumnal-Aspen-twig.jpg 934w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6615\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Netty with glorious autumnal Aspen twig. The colours are exactly as photographed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[90,88],"tags":[399,535,712,513,1365],"class_list":["post-6611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-history","category-nature-reserves","tag-aspen","tag-autumn-colours","tag-gunnersbury-triangle","tag-willow","tag-willow-emerald-damselfly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6611","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=6611"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6616,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6611\/revisions\/6616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}