{"id":14661,"date":"2018-07-13T18:56:48","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T23:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14661"},"modified":"2018-07-24T08:49:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T13:49:13","slug":"bumble-bee-on-coneflower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14661","title":{"rendered":"Bumble Bee on Coneflower"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14663\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_20180713_155557.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14663\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_20180713_155557-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Bumble Bee on Coneflower\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14663\" data-wp-pid=\"14663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_20180713_155557-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_20180713_155557-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_20180713_155557-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_20180713_155557-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_20180713_155557-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_20180713_155557.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14663\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bumble Bee on Coneflower<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The coneflowers (<em>Echinacea purpurea<\/em>) in our yard tend to get eaten up by insects of one sort or another. I&#8217;m not sure who the culprit actually is, but they eat holes in the ray florets (the petals around the central group of disc florets), making the flowers a bit less attractive for photography. The bees aren&#8217;t bothered, of course, and this bumble bee (<em>Bombus impatiens<\/em>). The generic name <em>Echinacea<\/em> comes from the Greek word meaning hedgehog or sea-urchin, which references the spiny center of the flower. The name <em>Bombus<\/em> for bumble bees comes from the Latin (which took it from the Greek) for &#x201c;booming, buzzing, humming.&#x201d;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coneflowers (Echinacea purpurea) in our yard tend to get eaten up by insects of one sort or another. I&#8217;m not sure who the culprit actually is, but they eat holes in the ray florets (the petals around the central group of disc florets), making the flowers a bit less attractive for photography. The bees &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14661\">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":[119,753,752,120,788,790,789],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14661"}],"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=14661"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14679,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14661\/revisions\/14679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}