{"id":780,"date":"2013-05-19T12:19:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T17:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/?p=780"},"modified":"2013-05-19T12:19:47","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T17:19:47","slug":"bombylius-discolor-a-new-species-for-hartslock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/?p=780","title":{"rendered":"Bombylius discolor &#8211; a new species for Hartslock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was very busy with lots of visitors choosing to come up and see the hybrids but while showing a party of botanists around I spotted a larger, darker bee-fly\u00a0pollinating\u00a0cowslips. On catching it I was pleasantly surprised to see that it was a <em>Bombylius discolor<\/em> (Spotted bee-fly), quite a rarity this far north and a new species for the site. It was obliging enough to stop for a few photos and even sat on someone&#8217;s finger for a while.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-780 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bombylius-discolor-Hartslock-2013-05-19_0003.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bombylius-discolor-Hartslock-2013-05-19_0003-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-781\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-781'>\n\t\t\t\tSpotted bee-fly (Bombylius discolor)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Carex-tomentosa-Downy-fruited-Sedge-Hartslock-2013-05-19_0001.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Carex-tomentosa-Downy-fruited-Sedge-Hartslock-2013-05-19_0001-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-783\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-783'>\n\t\t\t\tDowny-fruited sedge (Carex tomentosa)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Carex-flacca-Grey-Sedge-Hartslock-2013-05-19_0002.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Carex-flacca-Grey-Sedge-Hartslock-2013-05-19_0002-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-782\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-782'>\n\t\t\t\tGlaucous Sedge (Carex flacca)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was very busy with lots of visitors choosing to come up and see the hybrids but while showing a party of botanists around I&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}