{"id":6445,"date":"2014-08-24T17:07:38","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T22:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=6445"},"modified":"2014-08-26T20:47:28","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T01:47:28","slug":"monarch-and-resin-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=6445","title":{"rendered":"Monarch and Resin Bee"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6449\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/img_20140824_090936.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6449\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/img_20140824_090936-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Danaus plexippus (Monarch)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6449\" data-wp-pid=\"6449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/img_20140824_090936-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/img_20140824_090936-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/img_20140824_090936-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/img_20140824_090936.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6449\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Danaus plexippus<\/em> (Monarch)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It was another beautiful day, a bit warmer than it&#8217;s been, but then it is August. I worked in the yard quite a bit this afternoon, doing a lot of weeding. It was mostly thistles and fleabane, ignoring the smaller weeds. I also cut a fair amount of dead wood out of a few of the roses. The pink multiflora rose was an absolute thicket of canes and my arms are a bit worse for the work, but the rose will be happier for it. When I had filled two barrels with yard waste (packed down quite a bit), I took a break and sat in the shade with a good book and a cold drink. I didn&#8217;t get very far in my reading, though.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6450\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/img_20140824_090958.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6450\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/img_20140824_090958-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Megachile sculpturalis (Sculptured Resin Bee)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6450\" data-wp-pid=\"6450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/img_20140824_090958-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/img_20140824_090958-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/img_20140824_090958-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/img_20140824_090958-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/img_20140824_090958.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6450\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Megachile sculpturalis<\/em> (Sculptured Resin Bee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I noticed a monarch butterfly (<em>Danaus plexippus<\/em>) on the <em>Verbena bonariensis<\/em> growing in the middle of our back yard. I was able to get pretty close and picked this one as the best, partly because of the bright background of black-eyed Susans. While I was taking pictures of him (it&#8217;s a male) I noticed a fairly large bee. It&#8217;s about an inch long and is a Sculptured Resin Bee (<em>Megachile sculpturalis<\/em>). They were recently introduced to eastern north America from their native Japan and eastern China, having first been seen in North Carolina in 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was another beautiful day, a bit warmer than it&#8217;s been, but then it is August. I worked in the yard quite a bit this afternoon, doing a lot of weeding. It was mostly thistles and fleabane, ignoring the smaller weeds. 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