{"id":1031,"date":"2012-05-03T19:12:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T23:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daringdrake.com\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2012-05-03T19:12:39","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T23:12:39","slug":"insects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/insects\/","title":{"rendered":"Insects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Out watching the ducks chasing flying insects in the orchard this evening.\u00a0 With the extremely warm day, the air is filled with flying morsels of protein and the ducks look mighty happy.\u00a0\u00a0 Yesterday, John and Idunn- both armed only with veils and short sleeved shirts- captured a swarm of honeybees in the orchard.\u00a0 The bees, possibly a break-away swarm from our hive, covered a pear branch.\u00a0 John shook the branch to get half the bees to fall into a bee box.\u00a0 Later Idunn checked the box and helped put the lid on.\u00a0 In the next few days the two of them will check the hive for a queen.<\/p>\n<p>The not-so-good insects are also making an appearance.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve had to deal with the first generation of imported currant worms on our gooseberries.\u00a0 If you have just a few (or many)\u00a0 plants, you need to be vigilant against the pale green larvae.\u00a0 Look over your gooseberry leaves carefully, if you spot black specks of frass or tiny holes in the leaves you need to lift leaves and find the larvae.\u00a0 They can be drowned in a soapy mixture, or just squished.\u00a0 Larvae of the third generation overwinter in cocoons in the soil and I can only imagine how easy their winter was this year.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1032\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/spring-2012-006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1032\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1032\" title=\"spring 2012 006\" src=\"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/spring-2012-006-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/spring-2012-006-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/spring-2012-006-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1032\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spring seed planting<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out watching the ducks chasing flying insects in the orchard this evening.\u00a0 With the extremely warm day, the air is filled with flying morsels of protein and the ducks look mighty happy.\u00a0\u00a0 Yesterday, John and Idunn- both armed only with veils and short sleeved shirts- captured a swarm of honeybees in the orchard.\u00a0 The bees, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034,"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions\/1034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}