{"id":5900,"date":"2012-04-21T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=5900"},"modified":"2012-04-19T21:29:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T01:29:22","slug":"sity-bugs-bugs-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=5900","title":{"rendered":"SITY: Bugs, Bugs, Bugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see a lot of bugs outside, so I take their pictures. Most of them don&#8217;t seem to mind, though honestly, the bumblebees do sometimes take exception to my being outside, even when I&#8217;m not in any way harassing them. When they&#8217;re in that kind of mood, they circle around my head a few times to let me know that I should relocate to another part of the yard. Given this attitude, it amazes me that they let me take <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=5884\">the pictures from yesterday&#8217;s post<\/a>.\u00a0 I can only assume that secretly they&#8217;ve always wanted to be in pictures.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I have found about back-yard bug photography is the bigger the bug, the better. The large bug is easy to spot and the camera&#8217;s auto-focus picks it out almost immediately, which allows you to back off quickly. That&#8217;s why those huge bumblebees make good subjects. But they&#8217;re not the only big bugs to be found in the yard. Here are a few more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_1873.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5903\" title=\"IMG_1873\" src=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_1873-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_1873-300x230.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_1873.jpg 758w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_18751.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_1807.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5902\" title=\"IMG_1807\" src=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_1807-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_1807-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_1807.jpg 890w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_1598.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5901\" title=\"IMG_1598\" src=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_1598-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_1598-300x238.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_1598-1024x814.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_1598.jpg 1070w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see a lot of bugs outside, so I take their pictures. Most of them don&#8217;t seem to mind, though honestly, the bumblebees do sometimes take exception to my being outside, even when I&#8217;m not in any way harassing them. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=5900\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,100,1],"tags":[71,277],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5900"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5929,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900\/revisions\/5929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}