{"id":333,"date":"2010-09-28T15:13:56","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T22:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=333"},"modified":"2010-12-26T15:26:36","modified_gmt":"2010-12-26T23:26:36","slug":"caught-in-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=333","title":{"rendered":"Caught in flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some dragonflies watch for prey from a perch and then head out after it. This is not the case with darners, which hunt on the wing. This makes them a challenge to photograph. Below are four views, taken in late September, of (what I believe is) a male shadow darner as it patrolled the lakeshore looking for other insects.<\/p>\n

While I was trying to photograph the darner in flight, a beeish robber fly headed out and did catch something delectable: possibly a cuckoo bee. So, while my camera did not catch the robber fly in flight, the fly caught something else in flight, so I added that shot also.<\/p>\n

The Kootenay-Lake\u00a0Website offers a discussion and more pictures of local dragonflies<\/a> and flies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Some dragonflies watch for prey from a perch and then head out after it. This is not the case with darners, which hunt on the wing. This makes them a challenge to photograph. Below are four views, taken in late … Continue reading →<\/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-333","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\/333","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=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}