{"id":16912,"date":"2016-04-21T06:56:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T13:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16912"},"modified":"2016-04-21T15:42:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T22:42:18","slug":"crane-fly-mating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16912","title":{"rendered":"Crane Fly mating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As I wander about the yard watching the progress of spring, I ofttimes have seen the frenetic flight of Giant Crane Flies, but my photographic skills were not able to match their rapidity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I managed <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13378\">a picture of one last year<\/a>, which enabled a discussion of its\u00a0gyro stabilization. So far this year, nothing seemed to slow\u00a0them &#8212; nothing, that is, until two of them settled down together.<\/p>\n<p>Giant Crane Flies mate. The female is on the upper right.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16913\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/cranefly160420s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; As I wander about the yard watching the progress of spring, I ofttimes have seen the frenetic flight of Giant Crane Flies, but my photographic skills were not able to match their rapidity.\u00a0 I managed a picture of one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16912\">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-16912","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\/16912","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=16912"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16926,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16912\/revisions\/16926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}