{"id":8193,"date":"2022-06-13T11:19:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T11:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=8193"},"modified":"2022-06-13T11:25:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T11:25:22","slug":"eyed-hawkmoth-at-the-wetland-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/13\/eyed-hawkmoth-at-the-wetland-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyed Hawkmoth at the Wetland Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/RSCN0720-Wetland-Centre-Eyed-Hawkmoth-Smerinthus-ocellata-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/RSCN0720-Wetland-Centre-Eyed-Hawkmoth-Smerinthus-ocellata-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/RSCN0720-Wetland-Centre-Eyed-Hawkmoth-Smerinthus-ocellata-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/RSCN0720-Wetland-Centre-Eyed-Hawkmoth-Smerinthus-ocellata-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/RSCN0720-Wetland-Centre-Eyed-Hawkmoth-Smerinthus-ocellata-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/RSCN0720-Wetland-Centre-Eyed-Hawkmoth-Smerinthus-ocellata-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/RSCN0720-Wetland-Centre-Eyed-Hawkmoth-Smerinthus-ocellata-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>A distant shot of a distinctive insect, the Eyed Hawkmoth (<em>Smerinthus ocellata<\/em>). Only the hawkmoths have those wide triangular wings, hooked at the tip and indented beside the abdomen; and only this species has the large eyespots on the hindwings. The adults don&#8217;t feed; the larvae eat Willow, which is certainly plentiful at the Wetland Centre!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Wetland-Centre-Yellow-Bartsia-756x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8195\" width=\"480\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Wetland-Centre-Yellow-Bartsia-756x1024.jpg 756w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Wetland-Centre-Yellow-Bartsia-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Wetland-Centre-Yellow-Bartsia-111x150.jpg 111w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Wetland-Centre-Yellow-Bartsia-768x1040.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Wetland-Centre-Yellow-Bartsia-1134x1536.jpg 1134w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Wetland-Centre-Yellow-Bartsia.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption>Yellow Bartsia (<em>Parentucellia viscosa<\/em>) was growing in a broad mass all around the islands and along the channels. It&#8217;s a curious plant, semi-parasitic, living in damp sandy places and dune slacks. It has the lipped flowers of the Figwort family (like the garden <em>Mimulus <\/em>or monkey flower).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","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],"tags":[1693,422,1694],"class_list":["post-8193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-history","tag-eyed-hawkmoth","tag-london-wetland-centre","tag-yellow-bartsia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8193","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=8193"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8200,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8193\/revisions\/8200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}