{"id":30772,"date":"2021-06-24T19:20:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T02:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=30772"},"modified":"2021-06-24T19:20:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T02:20:35","slug":"two-dragonflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=30772","title":{"rendered":"Two dragonflies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It seemed a bit early to see the first dragonflies of the season, but there they were. And a welcome sight they were. These acrobatic aerial predators are especially partial to mosquitoes, flies, mayflies, midges, and gnats. If the insect flies, a dragonfly captures and eats it. A summer at the beach greatly benefits from the predation of dragonflies.<\/p>\n<p>There are quite a few species of dragonflies. Here are two seen today.<\/p>\n<p>Saffron-winged meadowhawk <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30774\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/saffronwingedmeadowhawk210624s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Eight-spotted skimmer<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30773\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/eightspottedskimmer210624s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It seemed a bit early to see the first dragonflies of the season, but there they were. And a welcome sight they were. These acrobatic aerial predators are especially partial to mosquitoes, flies, mayflies, midges, and gnats. If the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=30772\">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-30772","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\/30772","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=30772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30776,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30772\/revisions\/30776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}