{"id":6460,"date":"2024-09-29T16:47:43","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T22:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=6460"},"modified":"2024-09-29T16:47:43","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T22:47:43","slug":"lizards-and-grubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2024\/09\/29\/lizards-and-grubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Lizards and Grubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Anole on the bench is comfortable with us. It seems to know that we bring water, that we pose no risk. If we move slowly and predictably, it chooses to remain still while keeping a watchful eye on us.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jumpingfish.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2024\/09\/i-hDz6WgZ\/A\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"anole watching from the bench\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2024\/09\/i-hDz6WgZ\/0\/LsGQc89wvS94FK7f5xkLnCFZPCrRxfPGzh7RGmKXz\/M\/photomania-85393b802fce6f628a4b3ba346dbf7e3-M.jpg\" alt=\"rendition of an anole watching from the arm of the bench\" width=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&rsquo;ve never seen and adult Stag Beetle here, although we&rsquo;ve seen an abandoned black carapace. There is a kindergarten of larvae in our compost pile right now, each easily larger than my thumb. Certainly we&rsquo;ll see an adult this year?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jumpingfish.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2024\/09\/i-LnKQmtF\/A\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"stag beetle larvae\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2024\/09\/i-LnKQmtF\/0\/M2HxFwgP5HbqsD7pz7tSwmX7wWH2bLsmm8s5Ckdqf\/S\/DSC_0180b-S.jpg\" alt=\"a heap of stag beetle larvae\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Anole on the bench is comfortable with us. It seems to know that we bring water, that we pose no risk. If we move slowly and predictably, it chooses to remain still while keeping a watchful eye on us. We&rsquo;ve never seen and adult Stag Beetle here, although we&rsquo;ve seen an abandoned black carapace. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6461,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6460\/revisions\/6461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}