{"id":8775,"date":"2013-09-11T08:31:54","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T15:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8775"},"modified":"2013-09-11T09:56:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T16:56:00","slug":"percher-and-flier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8775","title":{"rendered":"Percher and flier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dragonflies are predators that voraciously consume other bugs. Their hunting strategies are similar to those used by predator birds: Some watch for prey from a perch; Some hunt on the wing. Below is an example of each.<\/p>\n<p>This is a Cherry-faced Meadowhawk, a percher. If a delectable insect flies by, the meadowhawk goes after it.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8779\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/cherryfacedmeadowhawk130904s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Darners are fliers. When hunting they are on an endless patrol (which makes them a challenge to photograph). This one is probably a Paddle-tailed Darner.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8777\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/darner130910s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is the last thing a mosquito would see.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8778\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/darner130909s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Dragonflies are predators that voraciously consume other bugs. Their hunting strategies are similar to those used by predator birds: Some watch for prey from a perch; Some hunt on the wing. Below is an example of each. This is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8775\">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-8775","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\/8775","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=8775"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8790,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8775\/revisions\/8790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}