{"id":14403,"date":"2018-05-24T17:20:10","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T22:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14403"},"modified":"2018-05-28T09:29:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T14:29:33","slug":"calopteryx-maculata-ebony-jewelwing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14403","title":{"rendered":"<em>Calopteryx maculata<\/em> (Ebony Jewelwing)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14405\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img_20180524_153853.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14405\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img_20180524_153853-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Calopteryx maculata (Ebony Jewelwing)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14405\" data-wp-pid=\"14405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img_20180524_153853-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img_20180524_153853-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img_20180524_153853-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img_20180524_153853-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img_20180524_153853-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img_20180524_153853.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14405\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Calopteryx maculata<\/em> (Ebony Jewelwing)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I stopped on the way home today to take a short walk on Rock Creek Trail. I went over to the creek, where I had been a few weeks ago when the water was so high. There were quite a few insects about this time, including a lot of these pretty little damselflies. This is a male ebony jewelwing (<em>Calopteryx maculata<\/em>). The females have a conspicuous, white spot near the end of their wings (the &#x201c;spot&#x201d; on this one is a reflection, not really a spot). The photo is not as sharp as I would have liked but they don&#8217;t appreciate close approach and it&#8217;s the best I was able to get. One thing I really like about this picture, though, is that you can see the edge of the leaf through the damselfly&#8217;s wings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stopped on the way home today to take a short walk on Rock Creek Trail. I went over to the creek, where I had been a few weeks ago when the water was so high. There were quite a few insects about this time, including a lot of these pretty little damselflies. This is &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14403\">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],"tags":[674,73,121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14403"}],"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=14403"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14415,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14403\/revisions\/14415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}