{"id":557,"date":"2011-06-28T13:01:30","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T12:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/?p=557"},"modified":"2012-05-27T12:42:13","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T11:42:13","slug":"capturing-summer-the-insects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/?p=557","title":{"rendered":"Capturing summer: the insects&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently capturing summer in photographs (<a title=\"Capturing summer\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/?p=546\">see here for more details<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Today is all about some of the beautiful insects I have come across on my walks. I start off with the bumble bees I met at the poppy patch:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-563\" title=\"Bumble bee landing on poppy\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/photography\/passingclouds\/2011\/06\/CD1_31272.jpg\" alt=\"Bumble bee landing on poppy\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/photography\/passingclouds\/2011\/06\/CD1_31272.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/photography\/passingclouds\/2011\/06\/CD1_31272-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-564\" title=\"Bumble bee flying to poppy\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/photography\/passingclouds\/2011\/06\/CD1_38181.jpg\" alt=\"Bumble bee flying to poppy\" width=\"900\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/photography\/passingclouds\/2011\/06\/CD1_38181.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/photography\/passingclouds\/2011\/06\/CD1_38181-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-559\" title=\"Bumble bee flying to poppy\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/photography\/passingclouds\/2011\/06\/CD1_3025.jpg\" alt=\"Bumble bee flying to poppy\" width=\"900\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/photography\/passingclouds\/2011\/06\/CD1_3025.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/photography\/passingclouds\/2011\/06\/CD1_3025-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I was trying to take a photograph of this flower, but found that I was not the only one interested in it:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-566\" title=\"Bee flying towards the flower\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/photography\/passingclouds\/2011\/06\/CD1_5196.jpg\" alt=\"Bee flying towards the flower\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/photography\/passingclouds\/2011\/06\/CD1_5196.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/photography\/passingclouds\/2011\/06\/CD1_5196-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I met this colourful bug sunbathing happily on these flowers:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-565\" title=\"Colourful bug sunbathing on the flowers\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/photography\/passingclouds\/2011\/06\/CD1_5193.jpg\" alt=\"Colourful bug sunbathing on the flowers\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/photography\/passingclouds\/2011\/06\/CD1_5193.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/photography\/passingclouds\/2011\/06\/CD1_5193-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And I said hello to this wiggly caterpillar which reminded me of <a title=\"The very hungry caterpillar\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Very-Hungry-Caterpillar-Board-Book\/dp\/0241003008\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1309261434&amp;sr=8-1\">the very hungry caterpillar<\/a> and made me smile:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-567\" title=\"The very hungry caterpillar\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/photography\/passingclouds\/2011\/06\/CD1_5218.jpg\" alt=\"The very hungry caterpillar says hello\" width=\"900\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/photography\/passingclouds\/2011\/06\/CD1_5218.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/photography\/passingclouds\/2011\/06\/CD1_5218-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently capturing summer in photographs (see here for more details). Today is all about some of the beautiful insects I have come across on my walks. I start off with the bumble bees I met at the poppy patch: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I was trying to take a photograph of this flower, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[109,82,110,251],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-urban-nature","tag-bees","tag-flowers","tag-poppy","tag-summer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}