{"id":1317,"date":"2012-08-21T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2012-08-21T07:54:58","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T11:54:58","slug":"odes-and-other-insects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=1317","title":{"rendered":"Odes and Other Insects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the weekend, I grabbed a bit of time to photograph; both around the yard and by the lake at camp. The number and variety of odes seemed small but they were around.<\/p>\n<p>[nggallery id=157]<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday morning the neighborhood kids arrived carrying a small stick bearing an interesting story&#8230; I guess that we have developed a reputation!!<\/p>\n<p>While I was photographing (see the first image below), Joan was Googling and discovered that what the kids had discovered was a hornworm bearing cocoons of a <a href=\"http:\/\/aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu\/galveston\/beneficials\/beneficial-04_braconid_wasp_on_hornworm.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">braconid wasp<\/span><\/a>. We all learned something!<\/p>\n<p>Later in the day, I spent a couple of hours down at the beaver swamp at the back of our property; I had not been down there for more than a month.<\/p>\n<p>Again, it seemed that the number and variety of odes were small. There were a few large darners cruising the meadow and small numbers of female spreadwings at the edge of the pond. The most common odes were meadowhawks at the margins of the swamp.<\/p>\n<p>However, there were still\u00a0 some interesting stories to capture and I came home wet and happy!<\/p>\n<p>[nggallery id=158]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the weekend, I grabbed a bit of time to photograph; both around the yard and by the lake at camp. The number and variety of odes seemed small but they were around. [nggallery id=157] Yesterday morning the neighborhood kids arrived carrying a small stick bearing an interesting story&#8230; I guess that we have developed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,28],"tags":[13,12,31],"class_list":["post-1317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odontates","category-other-insects","tag-damselflies","tag-dragonflies","tag-insects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317","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=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1324,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions\/1324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}