{"id":7651,"date":"2021-06-09T09:50:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T09:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=7651"},"modified":"2021-06-09T10:01:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T10:01:50","slug":"large-red-damselflies-in-gunnersbury-triangle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/09\/large-red-damselflies-in-gunnersbury-triangle\/","title":{"rendered":"Large Red Damselflies in Gunnersbury triangle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-09-GT-Large-Red-Damselfly-in-cop-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7655\" width=\"461\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-09-GT-Large-Red-Damselfly-in-cop-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-09-GT-Large-Red-Damselfly-in-cop-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-09-GT-Large-Red-Damselfly-in-cop-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-09-GT-Large-Red-Damselfly-in-cop-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-09-GT-Large-Red-Damselfly-in-cop-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-09-GT-Large-Red-Damselfly-in-cop-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Suddenly, after a freezing but dry April and a warmer but moist (April Showers) May, it&#8217;s June and Summer. The hazels have rushed into full leaf; the brambles are pushing across the paths at astonishing speed; Azure Damselflies have all hatched at once and are sunning themselves near the pond; and pairs of Large Red Damselflies are urgently flying about, all 8 wings in harmony, in their complex mating system, to lay eggs rapidly on pond plants before it all dries up.  Like their much larger cousins, the Dragonflies, Damselflies are predators, and fiercely competitive for their territory; males chase off not only other males but other insects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suddenly, after a freezing but dry April and a warmer but moist (April Showers) May, it&#8217;s June and Summer. The hazels have rushed into full leaf; the brambles are pushing across the paths at astonishing speed; Azure Damselflies have all hatched at once and are sunning themselves near the pond; and pairs of Large Red &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/09\/large-red-damselflies-in-gunnersbury-triangle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Large Red Damselflies in Gunnersbury triangle<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[90,88],"tags":[712,316],"class_list":["post-7651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-history","category-nature-reserves","tag-gunnersbury-triangle","tag-large-red-damselfly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7651","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=7651"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7659,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7651\/revisions\/7659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}