{"id":19480,"date":"2016-10-27T04:21:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T08:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=19480"},"modified":"2016-10-27T04:21:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T08:21:40","slug":"make-mine-a-double","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2016\/10\/make-mine-a-double\/","title":{"rendered":"Make mine a double"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/SemiHiddenStagmo.jpg\" alt=\"Carolina mantis Stagmomantis carolina peering from deep cover\" width=\"730\" height=\"1058\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19481\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>The other day I <a href=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2016\/10\/scooped\/\" target=\"_blank\">commented<\/a> that the immortal (so far) <a href=\"http:\/\/albuggphotos.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mr Bugg<\/a> had failed to beat me to the punch in posting something from our mutual outing before I did. What I was forgetting was that he apparently lives across <em>two<\/em> international date lines, so while it was Sunday here, it was Friday there. Thus, he still managed to post a day ahead of me, we just had to wait another day to see it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, yesterday&#8217;s outing (or was it Wednesday&#8217;s?) netted us only a small collection of images, one of those slower days that you (now) read about, and I&#8217;m largely going to skip this one to talk about the previous, which had at least more fartsy stuff going for it. For now, I&#8217;ll simply show an image of a still-small Carolina mantis (<em>Stagmomantis carolina<\/em>) that peeped out from a stand of tall native plants in the NC Botanical Garden. Despite it being less than 4 cm in length, which seems quite small for this time of year, I was able to spot this one without too much difficulty since it was in largely the same place that I&#8217;d seen it 20 days earlier. Mantids may do this, hanging out in almost the exact same location for a few days to a few weeks, before moving on to another location not far off. Of course, I may be assuming a lot here, including that it had not moved off and come back through, or that this was the same mantis. I&#8217;m bad enough recognizing <em>people<\/em> I&#8217;ve met only briefly, and won&#8217;t claim any better skills with arthropods.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I&#8217;ll add in another perspective, showing Mr Bugg (the human) in action getting his own shots. I was careful to frame the mantis against his shirt so that it stood out noticeably, but even then you have to be paying close attention. It shows scale nicely, though.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/BuggBug.jpg\" alt=\"The timely Mr Bugg Homo sapiens photographing a juvenile Carolina mantis Stagmomantis carolina\" width=\"730\" height=\"1095\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19483\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I commented that the immortal (so far) Mr Bugg had failed to beat me to the punch in posting something from our mutual outing before I did. What I was forgetting was that he apparently lives across two international date lines, so while it was Sunday here, it was Friday there. Thus, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1903,4,3],"tags":[3041,3589,3588,3042],"class_list":["post-19480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-because","category-nature","category-photo","tag-carolina-mantis","tag-did-you-change-your-hair","tag-going-in-the-other-direction-defeats-causality","tag-stagmomantis-carolina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}