{"id":5228,"date":"2020-04-22T10:53:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T10:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=5228"},"modified":"2023-02-23T17:28:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T17:28:56","slug":"day-29-in-our-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/day-29-in-our-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 29 in our garden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two new species today. I don’t count the cargo plane as a species and though I have posted a caterpillar before this one is a different flavour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Caterpillar in our garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I spotted what I thought was a tiny twig dangling and spinning half way between the leaves over the arbour and the ground. At first I thought it had been caught in a spider’s web but on looking closer it was a caterpillar crawling up its own silk thread. I tried to take photos of it blowing about on its thread but failed miserably. This one was taken once it had shimmied all the way up its thread. I need to find out why they do this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I assume caterpillars have different flavours and I’m pretty sure this is a different species to the ones I posted before. It is definitely a lot smaller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Small White butterfly on our Clematis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I have posted photos of a Large White during this series but this one is a Small White on our Clematis Alpina. They are surprisingly difficult to spot when they are still. Several times I watched it land and if I looked away to try to get in a better position to take a photo I was not able to find it again until it started moving, which usually was flying to another part of the Clematis where I would lose it again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Clematis Alpina in our garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This photo was supposed to have the butterfly on it but I reckon it is a nice one of the Clematis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bee feeding on our Clematis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It’s only when you look close at bees when they are feeding that you see their proboscis. Apparently it has one tube inside another and can be retracted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bee Hoverfly feeding on our Choisya<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This is different to the Bee Hoverfly that has its proboscis permanently stuck out in front of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cargo plane from our garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I still see a few vapour trails in the sky. This plane was leaving no trail. I assume it is a cargo plane. There are three reasons for thinking this:-<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Passenger flights are down by 90+%<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. It has a high tail and the usual passenger planes I see don’t have high tails.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. It looks a bit fat.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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    Squirrel eating the Cherry Blossom in our garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    And to finish off this post, here’s another shot of a Squirrel eating the Cherry blossom. I assume there are small tasty bits at the back of the flower that would grow into a cherry. You can see empty stalks where Squirrels or birds have taken the flowers off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    This is the index to\u00a0Days in our garden series<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Two new species today. I don’t count the cargo plane as a species and though I have posted a caterpillar before this one is a different flavour. I spotted what I thought was a tiny twig dangling and spinning half way between the leaves over the arbour and the ground. At first I thought it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Day 29 in our garden. Small White and a caterpillar.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/7D2_1765.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3kGoX-1mk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8036,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228\/revisions\/8036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}