{"id":12990,"date":"2017-09-23T14:34:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T19:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12990"},"modified":"2017-09-29T14:18:07","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T19:18:07","slug":"more-physostegia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12990","title":{"rendered":"More <em>Physostegia<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12992\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_20170923_146899.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12992\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_20170923_146899-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Eastern Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa virginica) on Physostegia virginiana\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12992\" data-wp-pid=\"12992\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_20170923_146899-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_20170923_146899-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_20170923_146899-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_20170923_146899-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_20170923_146899-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_20170923_146899.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12992\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eastern Carpenter Bee (<em>Xylocopa virginica<\/em>) on <em>Physostegia virginiana<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The light was really pretty this afternoon, shining on the <em>Physostegia virginiana<\/em> (a.k.a. obedient plant, but that&#8217;s not nearly as fun to say). I took some pictures of the flowers by themselves but really what I was looking for was a picture with a bee or wasp or something. There was actually quite a lot of activity, mostly from eastern carpenter bees (<em>Xylocopa virginica<\/em>) but getting a good picture proved elusive. They kept moving, for one thing, and most of the pictures I got are not in focus. They also spent most of their time with their heads buried in the flowers which meant all I could see was their backs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The light was really pretty this afternoon, shining on the Physostegia virginiana (a.k.a. obedient plant, but that&#8217;s not nearly as fun to say). I took some pictures of the flowers by themselves but really what I was looking for was a picture with a bee or wasp or something. There was actually quite a lot &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12990\">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\/12990"}],"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=12990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12993,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12990\/revisions\/12993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}