{"id":2397,"date":"2016-04-24T05:47:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T05:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=2397"},"modified":"2016-05-05T05:54:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T05:54:15","slug":"tawny-mining-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=2397","title":{"rendered":"Tawny Mining Bees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Each year, the grassed area around Wakefield Cathedral is the place to spot tawny mining bees (<em>Andrena fulva<\/em>). During the past week, they have created many small &#8220;volcanoes&#8221; as they have excavated their burrows.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2398\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2398\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2398\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-Apr-23-Tqwny-Mining-Bee-4.jpg\" alt=\"Burrows of Tawny Mining Bees\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-Apr-23-Tqwny-Mining-Bee-4.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-Apr-23-Tqwny-Mining-Bee-4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-Apr-23-Tqwny-Mining-Bee-4-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2398\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Burrows of Tawny Mining Bees<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sunny weather has brought the bees out but a chill in the air has slowed some of them down, making them easier to observe and photograph.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2399\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2399\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2399\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-Apr-23-Tawny-Mining-Bee-3.jpg\" alt=\"Tawny Mining Bee\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-Apr-23-Tawny-Mining-Bee-3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-Apr-23-Tawny-Mining-Bee-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-Apr-23-Tawny-Mining-Bee-3-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2399\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tawny Mining Bee<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this picture, taken using a mobile phone,\u00a0it&#8217;s possible to see not only the large compound eyes but also the simple eyes (ocelli) on the top of the bee&#8217;s head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, the grassed area around Wakefield Cathedral is the place to spot tawny mining bees (Andrena fulva). During the past week, they have created many small &#8220;volcanoes&#8221; as they have excavated their burrows. Sunny weather has brought the bees &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=2397\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[241,242,240,209],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2423,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions\/2423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}