{"id":43992,"date":"2013-08-06T07:55:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T06:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=43992"},"modified":"2019-12-23T00:32:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T11:32:33","slug":"in-the-pyrenees-mountains-the-yellow-winged-darter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/in-the-pyrenees-mountains-the-yellow-winged-darter\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Pyrenees mountains, the Yellow-winged darter"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Spain, a gentle climb from a beautiful lake at 1500m high, leads to 2 peat bogs in the becoming. There, Sedge Darners, Four-spotted Chasers and Yellow-winged darters are the main Anisopterae flying around; the latter are emerging by the hundreds, probably more.<\/p>\n

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Sympetrum flaveolum<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

The highest peat bog is on my left here, but doesn’t present a photographic interest since the water is covered by dense vegetation but the beauty of the carpeting flowers is amazing:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Yellow wing darters are perched on nearly every Common self-heal, but never on the yellow flowers of the Lady’s Bedstraw! It a dragonfly found in altitude around peat bogs and dams covered with dense vegetation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Sympetrum flaveolumSympetrum flaveolum on Prunella vulgaris<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Sympetrum flaveolumSympetrum flaveolum on Prunella vulgaris<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Sympetrum flaveolumSympetrum flaveolum<\/p>\n

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Sympetrum flaveolum, mature femaleFemelle mature<\/p>\n

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Sympetrum flaveolum, maturing maleMâle tout juste mature<\/p>\n

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Libellula quadrimaculata, young female<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Spain, a gentle climb from a beautiful lake at 1500m high, leads to 2 peat bogs in the becoming. There, Sedge Darners, Four-spotted Chasers and Yellow-winged darters are the main Anisopterae flying around; the latter are emerging by the hundreds, probably more. Sympetrum flaveolum The highest peat bog is on my left here, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":287,"featured_media":2147025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[2266,2571,189,5218],"class_list":["post-43992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-dragonfly","tag-noushka","tag-spain","tag-yellow-winged-darter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43992","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\/287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2147025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}