{"id":18831,"date":"2020-04-21T16:59:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T21:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18831"},"modified":"2020-04-29T19:31:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T00:31:42","slug":"eastern-tailed-blue-cupido-comyntas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18831","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Tailed-Blue (<em>Cupido comyntas<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18833\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_20200421_175398.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18833\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_20200421_175398-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Eastern Tailed-Blue (Cupido comyntas)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_20200421_175398-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_20200421_175398-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_20200421_175398-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_20200421_175398-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_20200421_175398.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18833\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eastern Tailed-Blue (<em>Cupido comyntas<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>You can pretty much be sure that if there are things blooming, there are at least a few insects about. Insects aren&#8217;t the only pollinators, of course but they do the lion&#8217;s share of the work. Nevertheless, they are not out in numbers that we&#8217;ll see later in the year. I saw and photographed two different insects today. This one is an eastern tailed-blue (<em>Cupido comyntas<\/em>) and the other was a syrphid flies (Syrphidae, probably <em>Toxomerus geminatus<\/em>). So, the insect season is getting underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can pretty much be sure that if there are things blooming, there are at least a few insects about. Insects aren&#8217;t the only pollinators, of course but they do the lion&#8217;s share of the work. Nevertheless, they are not out in numbers that we&#8217;ll see later in the year. I saw and photographed two &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18831\">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":[110,96,139,2034,1274,1677,879],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18831"}],"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=18831"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18834,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18831\/revisions\/18834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}