{"id":14244,"date":"2015-07-15T09:45:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T16:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14244"},"modified":"2015-07-15T09:45:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T16:45:37","slug":"snaketail-emergence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14244","title":{"rendered":"Snaketail emergence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While other dragonfly species have been hunting and mating for some time, the Pale Snaketail is just emerging. Usually emergence takes place in the morning. The\u00a0exuvia, the\u00a0discarded larval skin, is seen beside the dragonfly. The white thread, to the right, stays attached to the exuvia. It served as a trigger line to open the spiracles in the dragonfly allowing it to get oxygen now that it lives in the air. Soon this snaketail will try its first flight.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14245\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/palesnaketail150713s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; While other dragonfly species have been hunting and mating for some time, the Pale Snaketail is just emerging. Usually emergence takes place in the morning. The\u00a0exuvia, the\u00a0discarded larval skin, is seen beside the dragonfly. The white thread, to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14244\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14244"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14250,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14244\/revisions\/14250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}