{"id":3647,"date":"2013-06-21T23:58:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T04:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=3647"},"modified":"2013-06-23T18:08:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T23:08:17","slug":"bumble-bee-on-purple-top-vervain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=3647","title":{"rendered":"Bumble Bee on Purple-top Vervain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3648\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/img_20130621_061584.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3648\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/img_20130621_061584-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Bumble Bee on Purpletop Vervain\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/img_20130621_061584-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/img_20130621_061584-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/img_20130621_061584-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/img_20130621_061584-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/img_20130621_061584.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3648\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bumble Bee on Purpletop Vervain<\/p><\/div>\n<p>More insect pictures today. It&#8217;s starting to be bug time. Most of the bees I&#8217;ve been seeing are bumble bees (<em>Bombus<\/em> sp.). There are a lot of them on the gooseneck loosestrife (<em>Lysimachia clethroides<\/em>) but this photo is of one on the purple-top vervain (<em>Verbena bonariensis<\/em>), growing in the middle of our back yard. It used to be in the bed around two trees but the trees are gone now and we&#8217;ll see how it does with the extra sun.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, as I look out back now, I see the curved outlines of that bed and think it might be just about the right shape and size for a significant water feature &#x2014; part pond and part bog garden. That&#8217;s not going to happen before fall, but it might happen eventually. I&#8217;ll probably want to wait a year for the major roots to rot out a bit, then it should be a lot easier to dig there. I have at least one other design, though, and I&#8217;m not sure which I like better. So, we&#8217;ll have to see what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More insect pictures today. It&#8217;s starting to be bug time. Most of the bees I&#8217;ve been seeing are bumble bees (Bombus sp.). There are a lot of them on the gooseneck loosestrife (Lysimachia clethroides) but this photo is of one on the purple-top vervain (Verbena bonariensis), growing in the middle of our back yard. It &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=3647\">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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647"}],"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=3647"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3659,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647\/revisions\/3659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}