{"id":1677,"date":"2010-07-21T00:07:53","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T23:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1677"},"modified":"2013-11-10T18:18:24","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T18:18:24","slug":"more-insect-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/more-insect-life\/","title":{"rendered":"More Insect Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The clear focus this week is on our tiny friends. They&#39;re everywhere&#8230; especially the grasshoppers. Out in the fields they were leaping out of my path, a constant stream of the little leapers. I eventually found a spot to take some photographs. First, a grasshopper posing :whistle:<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/grasshopper_2007104118.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And now from the side&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/grasshopper_2007104122.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>At the edge of a building site they were congregating for their nuptials :right:<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/grasshopper_2007104246.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/grasshopper_2007104256.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/grasshopper_mating_2007104274.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile there were more ants. This time they were red ants, and they weren&#39;t flying, they were farming. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/red_ants_black_fly_2007104177.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I saw a burnet moth (I&#39;m not sure whether it&#39;s a six-spotted, or another variant).<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/six_spotted_burnet_2007104221.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And on every other flower head, the red soldier beetles were busy making lots more red soldier beetles.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/red_soldier_beetle_2007104085.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I&#39;ll close with a peacock butterfly, one of many varieties currently on the wing (though strangely there have been precious few painted ladies this year).<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/peacock_butterfly_2007104042.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/button.php?u=Words\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" alt=\"Nature Blog Network\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><i>Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 40D and EF 100mm f\/2.8L macro IS USM lens.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[991],"tags":[107,237],"class_list":["post-1677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insects-2","tag-insects","tag-macro","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}