{"id":5249,"date":"2020-04-23T20:16:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T20:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=5249"},"modified":"2023-02-23T17:31:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T17:31:42","slug":"day-31-in-our-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/day-31-in-our-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 31 in our garden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A couple of little surprises for Day 31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Day 31 I had a look at out Oregano plant, last year it had Mint Moths and Mint Moth caterpillars on it so I was looking for them. According to Butterfly Conservation<\/a> site Mint Moths are around from mid April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shield Bug in our garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I didn’t see any evidence of Mint Moths but I did spot this Shield Bug just next to the Oregano. I don’t remember seeing one in our garden before. I’ve seen lots of them down at Denso Marston Nature Reserve<\/a> though. Soon after taking this it opened its shield and flew away. For some reason I had assumed that it was a solid cover and that the bug was flight-less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Long Horned Beetle in our Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

During the day I was having a chat with our neighbour over the fence before spraying some of it with Willow fence preserver and spotted this Long Horned Beetle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wasp(?) in our garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

While bending down to clear a space to allow me access to the fence I noticed what looked like a wasp climbing up this Goose Grass and falling down several times. It seemed slightly strange behaviour for a Wasp, it is also slim and small. Is it one of those Bees I have posted about before? It was only while I was getting the image ready for this post that I noticed it doesn’t have wings – even more strange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cherry Blossom in our garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

During this I was under the Cherry Tree and I thought the sun on the blossom was too good to miss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I felt the same way in the front garden earlier and took a photo of the Iberis which is now the header image for this post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

A couple of little surprises for Day 31. On Day 31 I had a look at out Oregano plant, last year it had Mint Moths and Mint Moth caterpillars on it so I was looking for them. According to Butterfly Conservation site Mint Moths are around from mid April. I didn’t see any evidence of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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 31 in our garden. Wingless Wasp, Shield Bug & Long Horned Beetle.","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}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5249","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_1963.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3kGoX-1mF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5249","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=5249"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8038,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5249\/revisions\/8038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}