{"id":17591,"date":"2019-08-30T12:55:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17591"},"modified":"2019-09-04T09:51:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T13:51:51","slug":"pachydiplax-longipennis-blue-dasher-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17591","title":{"rendered":"<em>Pachydiplax longipennis<\/em> (Blue Dasher)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17597\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/img_20190830_169255.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17597\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/img_20190830_169255-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Pachydiplax longipennis (Blue Dasher)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17597\" data-wp-pid=\"17597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/img_20190830_169255-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/img_20190830_169255-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/img_20190830_169255-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/img_20190830_169255-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/img_20190830_169255-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/img_20190830_169255.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17597\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Pachydiplax longipennis<\/em> (Blue Dasher)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to get out of the office for a short walk to the empty lot next to my building for over a week now. The upper part, where it was mostly mugwort, milkweed, and goldenrod has been mowed and it looks very different. I don&#8217;t know if this is a prelude to actual building plans coming to fruition. Plans to develop it started at least 25 years ago and the top soil was scraped up into a large mound that now has mid-size trees on it. There are a few drainage ponds and they are all abuzz with insects and birds. I saw a green heron when I first got there and then photographed a few dragonflies, including this blue dasher (<em>Pachydiplax longipennis<\/em>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to get out of the office for a short walk to the empty lot next to my building for over a week now. The upper part, where it was mostly mugwort, milkweed, and goldenrod has been mowed and it looks very different. I don&#8217;t know if this is a prelude to actual &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17591\">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":[1932,199,73,1677,807,1934,1933],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17591"}],"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=17591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17598,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17591\/revisions\/17598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}