{"id":23637,"date":"2019-04-30T01:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T05:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=23637"},"modified":"2019-04-29T23:21:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T03:21:49","slug":"were-gonna-have-to-let-you-go-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2019\/04\/were-gonna-have-to-let-you-go-april\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re gonna have to let you go, April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/RedWeevilRedWeevil.jpg\" alt=\"possibly clover weevil Sitona hispidulus on red azalea blossom\" width=\"750\" height=\"1234\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23638\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>I should try a lot harder to branch out more for the end-of-the-month abstract, and not feature as many flowers and water droplets &#8211; we&#8217;ll have to see what May brings us. But I still liked the effect of this one, so I&#8217;ll just wallow in my rut for another month. At a botanical garden a few days back, I spotted this minuscule weevil on the very edge of an azalea bloom, and fired off a couple of frames wide open with the Mamiya 80 macro &#8211; this one happened to nail the focus bang on the bug. I&#8217;m tentatively identifying this as a clover weevil (<a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/47603\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Sitona hispidulus<\/em><\/a>,) and if anyone tries to correct me I&#8217;ll just laugh derisively and say, &#8220;Ah, yes, many people say that.&#8221; Which is a nice way of not admitting fault while not offering a correction, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should try a lot harder to branch out more for the end-of-the-month abstract, and not feature as many flowers and water droplets &#8211; we&#8217;ll have to see what May brings us. But I still liked the effect of this one, so I&#8217;ll just wallow in my rut for another month. At a botanical garden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,12],"tags":[1529,4871,4869,4870],"class_list":["post-23637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","category-random","tag-abstract","tag-azalea","tag-clover-weevil","tag-sitona-hispidulus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23637","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=23637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}