{"id":40296,"date":"2013-06-07T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=590168d70f2e47a4b9cf986cc7b79b0c"},"modified":"2024-06-17T14:37:34","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T13:37:34","slug":"thread-winged-lacewing-nemoptera-bipennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/thread-winged-lacewing-nemoptera-bipennis\/","title":{"rendered":"Thread-winged-Lacewing (Nemoptera bipennis)"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the most beautiful Iberian insects is the Wood Fairy or Thread-winged-Lacewing (Nemoptera bipennis), known as Duende in Spanish which translates as an elf or a fairy. My two younger daughters and I went out to look for them in one of the smaller pine woods on the edge of Barbate Marismas.<\/p>\n

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Within a short time we found a group of twenty or so ‘fairies’ dancing through the grasses and low flowering plants, settling for a while to feed and then off again, skipping through the sunlight and shade with their slow erratic flight.<\/p>\n

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They really are amazing creatures with thier large teardrop wings and long streamers and the girls were both delighted and fascinated at their antics as they put on a dance right in front of us.<\/p>\n

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Patience and a bit of stealth is required to get up close enough to them for good macro photos.<\/p>\n

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The beauty and diversity of nature never ceases to amaze me and I may have to go back there, sit down quietly on my own and watch them dance one more time…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the most beautiful Iberian insects is the Wood Fairy or Thread-winged-Lacewing (Nemoptera bipennis), known as Duende in Spanish which translates as an elf or a fairy. My two younger daughters and I went out to look for them in one of the smaller pine woods on the edge of Barbate Marismas. Within a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":2193008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-D_s9TwfkBC0\/Uan7woa-2RI\/AAAAAAAAlOQ\/d8T9VqGT1oU\/s1600\/Nemoptera-bipennis-Thread-winged-Lacewing_0014.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Thread-winged-Lacewing (Nemoptera bipennis)","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[7799,4654,189,2459,4653],"class_list":["post-40296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-insect","tag-nemoptera-bipennis","tag-spain","tag-stephen-daly","tag-thread-winged-lacewing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2193008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}