{"id":434,"date":"2013-08-04T13:48:19","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T18:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/?p=434"},"modified":"2013-08-04T13:48:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T18:48:19","slug":"creature-feature-2013-7-insect-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/creature-feature-2013-7-insect-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Creature Feature 2013 #7 – Insect Special"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s been dragonflies and butterflies all over the place lately, so here’s a special insect edition. I had this about ready to post early last week, but decided I needed to get a field guide so I could start identifying these critters. So, without further ado, and with the help of the National Wildlife Federation’s Field Guide to Insects and Spiders of North America<\/A> (which looks like a pretty good field guide; lots of pictures), here we go! (As usual, click on the image for a full-res version.)<\/p>\n

Here’s a Silver-spotted Skipper tankin’ up:
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A Red-spotted Purple, who has apparently been through a lot but was still flying:
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I think this is a Blue Dasher:
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These 12-spotted skimmers were darting around all over a little cove. I thought getting pictures of kingfishers in flight was difficult…
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There’s been dragonflies and butterflies all over the place lately, so here’s a special insect edition. I had this about ready to post early last week, but decided I needed to get a field guide so I could start identifying these critters. So, without further ado, and with the help of the National Wildlife Federation’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}