{"id":119,"date":"2010-06-01T11:03:49","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T15:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=119"},"modified":"2010-06-02T11:05:03","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T15:05:03","slug":"more-odontates-from-carvers-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"More Odontates from Carver&#8217;s Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carver&#8217;s Pond is an old mill pond in Bridgewater, MA. It is about two miles from our house and just up the street from the College. I walk there from work at lunch time many days. It is a place we go when we have time only for a very short jaunt&#8230; sometimes with the kayaks or canoe or sometimes just for a walk.<\/p>\n<p>The pond is home to much wildlife&#8230; turtles,\u00a0 fish, birds, small mammals and, of course, odontates. I spent a few hours hunting dragonflies and damselflies there again last Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>It is good to go back to the same place often&#8230; just to see what has changed.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of odontates, the &#8220;signal&#8221; for emergence from the larval form to the adult is mainly water temperature. Each species has a specific temperature at which it emerges.\u00a0 This time of year, when the water is warming rapidly, new species seem to &#8220;pop up&#8221; almost daily. Thus, multiple trips, even in quick succession are often rewarded with new species to see and photograph.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the day&#8217;s photographs:<\/p>\n<p>[nggallery id=10]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carver&#8217;s Pond is an old mill pond in Bridgewater, MA. It is about two miles from our house and just up the street from the College. I walk there from work at lunch time many days. It is a place we go when we have time only for a very short jaunt&#8230; sometimes with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5,14],"tags":[13,12],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carvers-pond","category-odontates","category-southeastern-ma","tag-damselflies","tag-dragonflies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}