{"id":709,"date":"2014-06-13T16:21:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T16:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=709"},"modified":"2014-06-13T16:29:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T16:29:48","slug":"summer-bugs-at-gunnersbury-triangle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/13\/summer-bugs-at-gunnersbury-triangle\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Bugs at Gunnersbury Triangle"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Cinnabar<\/a>
Cinnabar Moth on rusty False Oat Grass<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ragwort is at full height now and will soon be flowering. A few adult Cinnabar Moths are about; they will mate and lay eggs on the ragwort, which is in several places around the reserve, and then we will have the fine black-and-orange banded caterpillars in quantities, eating the Ragwort to pieces. They are poisonous with alkaloids taken up from the plant, so few predators eat them: an exception is the Cuckoo, which seems able to cope with the chemistry.<\/p>\n

\"Iris<\/a>
Iris Sawfly on Yellow Iris, with examples of how it damages leaves<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Iris sawfly caterpillars are starting to chew inroads into the spearblades of the Yellow Iris; they are rather like moth caterpillars, but with rows of little dots on their backs and different numbers of prolegs.<\/p>\n

\"Fox<\/a>
Fox run down grassy bank<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It looks as if there are young foxes about; a very well-worn run goes straight up the grassy bank into the bushes, and the grass nearby is much trodden down.<\/p>\n

\"Neighbours\"<\/a>
Neighbours<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The new buildings towering over the reserve are approaching their final shape; it will be a relief when the roar of heavy engines and the squeal and clatter of caterpillar-tracked bulldozers subside into history. There was a horrible accident on the building site this week when something fell from a crane; three workers were injured, one seriously, and the air ambulance arrived, followed by the health and safety inspectors.<\/p>\n

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Ragwort is at full height now and will soon be flowering. A few adult Cinnabar Moths are about; they will mate and lay eggs on the ragwort, which is in several places around the reserve, and then we will have the fine black-and-orange banded caterpillars in quantities, eating the Ragwort to pieces. They are poisonous … Continue reading Summer Bugs at Gunnersbury Triangle<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,90,88],"tags":[366,384,385,115],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-natural-history","category-nature-reserves","tag-cinnabar-moth","tag-iris-sawfly","tag-red-fox","tag-urban-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","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=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":716,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}