{"id":9253,"date":"2023-11-12T15:57:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T19:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/?p=9253"},"modified":"2023-11-12T15:57:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T19:57:53","slug":"bees-on-milkweed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/archives\/9253","title":{"rendered":"Bees on Milkweed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/skennard-120708-1223.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/skennard-120708-1223-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"A black and yellow bee with clearly defined veined wings and fuzzy outlined leg parts is sitting on a bunch of pink and green milkweed flowers. His body is covered in orange fluff.The unopened ones are a lovely fuzzy pink with fuzzy green calyxes. The open ones are a smooth pale pink shaped like small cups around the centre. The background is mainly soft green with a soft blue centre. Another bee, not in focus, is behind the first one.\" class=\"wp-image-9254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/skennard-120708-1223-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/skennard-120708-1223-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/skennard-120708-1223-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/skennard-120708-1223-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/skennard-120708-1223-690x460.jpg 690w, https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/skennard-120708-1223-980x653.jpg 980w, https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/skennard-120708-1223.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bee on Milkweed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>These cold and bleak fall days our wild and honey bees are nowhere to be seen, so it&#8217;s lovely to look back on the halcyon summer days when this scene was so common. Who would have thought milkweed flowers were so lovely? Have a lovely day, friends.<br>This was taken with my 180mm macro lens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These cold and bleak fall days our wild and honey bees are nowhere to be seen, so it&#8217;s lovely to look back on the halcyon summer days when this scene was so common. Who would have thought milkweed flowers were so lovely? Have a lovely day, friends.This was taken with my 180mm macro lens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":9254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,317,342,299,15],"tags":[337,339,39,341,338,335,83,336,340,334],"class_list":["post-9253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animals","category-floral","category-insects","category-macro","category-photos","tag-bees","tag-bloomscrolling","tag-floralfriday","tag-flower","tag-flowers","tag-insects","tag-macro","tag-pollinators","tag-silentsunday","tag-stevenkposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/skennard-120708-1223.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9253"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9257,"href":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253\/revisions\/9257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}