On returning, the anole had moved on, but very close by was another tableau:<\/strong><\/p>\n It’s been a busy two weeks and I haven’t had time to do much for the bloggarino – a couple of the recent posts were actually scheduled days in advance. I should be more free now, but right at the moment, just two quick images from this morning, almost the same location but not the […]<\/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],"tags":[7250,531,4081,1262,7249,2671,7248,2670,3189],"class_list":["post-34444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-an-awful-lot-really","tag-anolis-carolinensis","tag-carolina-anole","tag-chinese-mantis","tag-housefly","tag-hydrangea-quercifolia","tag-musca-domestica","tag-oak-leaf-hydrangea","tag-tenodera-sinensis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34444","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=34444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Carolina](\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/HydrangeaMiniAnole.jpg\")
It’s not like I need further photos of Carolina anoles (Anolis carolinensis<\/em>,) but it was being photogenic next to the flowers of the oak-leaf hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia<\/em>,) so I grabbed the camera. The morning sun was blocked from this position so it looks far more overcast than it is.<\/p>\n![\"very](\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/HouseflyMantis.jpg\")
The housefly (Musca domestica<\/em>) is easy enough to spot, but the little Chinese mantis (Tenodera sinensis<\/em>) is there if you look. While the mantis could potentially have captured and eaten the fly – well, most of it perhaps – the fly took off before a move was made. It at least provided a nice scale for the mantis, and the two images show off the radical difference, including in color, between sunlight and shade. Composition, tension, and education – what more could you want?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"