{"id":12209,"date":"2017-04-30T14:40:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T19:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12209"},"modified":"2017-05-08T11:04:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T16:04:23","slug":"blue-eyed-grass-with-syrphid-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12209","title":{"rendered":"Blue-eyed Grass with Syrphid Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12211\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_20170430_141067.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12211\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_20170430_141067-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Blue-eyed Grass with Syrphid Fly\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12211\" data-wp-pid=\"12211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_20170430_141067-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_20170430_141067-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_20170430_141067-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_20170430_141067-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_20170430_141067-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_20170430_141067.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blue-eyed Grass with Syrphid Fly<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It was a beautiful, warm day today and after church and lunch we decided to go to Fehr&#8217;s Nursery in Burtonsville. They have a nice selection of plants including the annuals that Cathy&#8217;s been planting in a small area at the front of our yard the last few years. I bring my camera and spend most of my time taking pictures of flowers. This year I also bought a miniature rose called &#x2018;Cutie Pie&#x2019; but that&#8217;s not what this photo is. This is a flower of Blue-eyed grass (<em>Sisyrinchium<\/em> species) with a syrphid fly (<em>Toxomerus marginatus<\/em>) perched on it. These are quite ubiquitous, little creatures in the area and they don&#8217;t cause any bother at all. I think they&#8217;re kind of pretty, as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a beautiful, warm day today and after church and lunch we decided to go to Fehr&#8217;s Nursery in Burtonsville. They have a nice selection of plants including the annuals that Cathy&#8217;s been planting in a small area at the front of our yard the last few years. I bring my camera and spend &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12209\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12212,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12209\/revisions\/12212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}