{"id":1477,"date":"2007-10-09T08:04:57","date_gmt":"2007-10-09T15:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2007\/10\/09\/ruby-meadowhawk-dragonfly\/"},"modified":"2007-10-09T08:07:59","modified_gmt":"2007-10-09T15:07:59","slug":"ruby-meadowhawk-dragonfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2007\/10\/09\/ruby-meadowhawk-dragonfly\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruby Meadowhawk Dragonfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All the years that I have been in California, it was not until last weekend that I saw a red dragonfly. In fact, there were red dragonflies in abundance, around the lake at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southcoastbotanicgarden.org\/\">South Coast Botanic Gardens<\/a>.  This is one of those infrequent occasions where I got an outstanding picture (Damsel is the queen of artistic photos in our family).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1476\" alt=ruby-meadowhawk src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/ruby-meadowhawk.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I did some research and found out that this is a Ruby Meadowhawk, a variety of the suborder Anistoptera (Dragonfly). This is an excerpt from the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dragonfly\">WikiPedia page on Dragonflies<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dragonflies typically eat mosquitoes, midges and other small insects like flies, bees, and butterflies. They are usually found around lakes, ponds, streams, and wetlands because their larvae, known as &#8220;nymphs&#8221;, are aquatic. Dragonflies do not normally bite or sting humans (though they will bite in order to escape, for example, if grasped by the abdomen); in fact, they are valued as a predator that helps control the populations of harmful insects, such as mosquitoes. It is because of this that dragonflies are sometimes called &#8220;mosquito hawks.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the years that I have been in California, it was not until last weekend that I saw a red dragonfly. In fact, there were red&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,49,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critters","category-home-garden","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}