{"id":2714,"date":"2011-08-29T10:12:27","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T17:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2714"},"modified":"2011-08-29T11:33:27","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T18:33:27","slug":"pale-snaketail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2714","title":{"rendered":"Pale Snaketail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Males hanging out in the August sunshine at the water\u2019s edge, eating, and waiting for females\u2014it sounds like the script for a 1960s beach\u2013party movie. Yet, that pretty well describes the life of the adult Pale Snaketail.<\/p>\n<p>This dragonfly is a member of the Clubtail family&#8212;just look at its tail&#8212;but, out of the nearly hundred species in this family across North America, this one seems to be the only one found in this vicinity. It can be seen along the shores of lakes and ponds, but sources suggest that it is rather uncommon.<\/p>\n<p>Pale Snaketails are perchers: they spend much of their time perching (as distinct from flying). Here we see them between short flights as they rest on various lakeshore rocks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2720\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/snaketail110828bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2718\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/snaketail110828as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Males hanging out in the August sunshine at the water\u2019s edge, eating, and waiting for females\u2014it sounds like the script for a 1960s beach\u2013party movie. Yet, that pretty well describes the life of the adult Pale Snaketail. This dragonfly is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2714\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-2714","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\/2714","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=2714"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2727,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714\/revisions\/2727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}