{"id":17703,"date":"2019-09-21T17:29:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T21:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17703"},"modified":"2019-09-26T19:27:05","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T23:27:05","slug":"blow-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17703","title":{"rendered":"Blow Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17705\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190921_170020.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17705\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190921_170020-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Blow Fly\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17705\" data-wp-pid=\"17705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190921_170020-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190921_170020-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190921_170020-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190921_170020-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190921_170020-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190921_170020.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17705\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blow Fly<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I took pictures of insects on aster flowers this evening. There was a bumble bee covered with little white dots that I&#8217;m pretty sure were eggs of some kind and didn&#8217;t bode well for the little critter. There was also a beautiful, metallic green, sweat bee (family Halictidae) and I got a picture of it as it lifted off the flower, which would have been amazing if it had been in better focus. The light was relatively low and I was using a flash with a white reflector for these pictures, which helped considerably. I also had a 25mm extension tube behind my 100mm macro lens, which helped me get that much closer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took pictures of insects on aster flowers this evening. There was a bumble bee covered with little white dots that I&#8217;m pretty sure were eggs of some kind and didn&#8217;t bode well for the little critter. There was also a beautiful, metallic green, sweat bee (family Halictidae) and I got a picture of it &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17703\">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":[2004,2003,1230,1229,153,73,1677,72],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17703"}],"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=17703"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17707,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17703\/revisions\/17707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}