{"id":5525,"date":"2012-06-16T16:53:03","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T23:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5525"},"modified":"2012-06-16T16:53:03","modified_gmt":"2012-06-16T23:53:03","slug":"insects-in-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5525","title":{"rendered":"Insects in flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I find it difficult to photograph insects in flight&#8212;birds are not easy either, but they are not as difficult as insects. Insects are small and usually too fast for my camera&#8217;s auto focus to capture. So, my occasional modest success with flying insects owes more to persistence than skill.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a honey bee approaching a wild rose. You can see the ball of pollen attached to its hind legs.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5527\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/honeybee120616s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A hover fly approaches a flower of the same plant.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5526\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/hoverfly120615s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I find it difficult to photograph insects in flight&#8212;birds are not easy either, but they are not as difficult as insects. Insects are small and usually too fast for my camera&#8217;s auto focus to capture. So, my occasional modest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5525\">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-5525","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\/5525","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=5525"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5531,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5525\/revisions\/5531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}