{"id":5409,"date":"2012-12-05T18:26:19","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T01:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2012\/12\/05\/ants-harvesting-sage-blossom-petals\/"},"modified":"2012-12-05T18:26:19","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T01:26:19","slug":"ants-harvesting-sage-blossom-petals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2012\/12\/05\/ants-harvesting-sage-blossom-petals\/","title":{"rendered":"Ants Harvesting Sage Blossom Petals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ants-harvesting-sage-flower-petals.jpg' title='Ants Harvesting Petals'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ants-harvesting-sage-flower-petals.jpg' alt='Ants Harvesting Petals' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Damsel pointed out this swarm of ants collecting petals recently shed by the Cimarron Sage after the recent &#8220;second spring&#8217; blooming. I&#8217;m not sure what they do with them, but feeding the colony comes to mind. <\/p>\n<p>This anthill is under some of the river rocks placed along the berm where the house sits. They are a little too close to the house and where we walk the dogs, so I took my &#8220;Ortho Annihilator&#8221; spray down there and doused their anthill and the area. Click on the image to enlarge. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damsel pointed out this swarm of ants collecting petals recently shed by the Cimarron Sage after the recent &#8220;second spring&#8217; blooming. I&#8217;m not sure what they&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,47,49,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-critters","category-home-garden","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5409","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=5409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}