{"id":14829,"date":"2018-08-12T14:24:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T19:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14829"},"modified":"2019-09-27T12:45:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T16:45:32","slug":"honey-bee-on-rudbekia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14829","title":{"rendered":"Honey Bee on Rudbekia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14831\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_20180812_157557.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14831\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_20180812_157557-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Honey Bee on Rudbekia Flower\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14831\" data-wp-pid=\"14831\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_20180812_157557-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_20180812_157557-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_20180812_157557-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_20180812_157557-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_20180812_157557-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_20180812_157557.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14831\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Honey Bee on Rudbekia Flower<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned before, the garden is somewhat overrun with <em>Rudbekia<\/em> (a.k.a. black-eyed Susan) flowers. The bees don&#8217;t mind. There are, actually, other things in bloom, but none nearly as obvious. The mountain mint (<em>Pycnanthemum muticum<\/em>), for instance, is <em>very<\/em> popular with the bees of all sorts. But their flowers are much less showy. This afternoon I took a bunch of pictures of various bees on the black-eye Susan flowers. This one is a western honey bee, <em>Apis mellifera<\/em>. Contrary to popular belief, they are in no real danger of all dying out. You can, to a large degree, thank capitalism for that, although I think the danger was considerably exagerated, in any case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned before, the garden is somewhat overrun with Rudbekia (a.k.a. black-eyed Susan) flowers. The bees don&#8217;t mind. There are, actually, other things in bloom, but none nearly as obvious. The mountain mint (Pycnanthemum muticum), for instance, is very popular with the bees of all sorts. But their flowers are much less showy. This &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14829\">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":[861,860,119,170,859,73,121,32,862,1523],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14829"}],"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=14829"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14834,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14829\/revisions\/14834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}