{"id":26675,"date":"2012-11-12T00:09:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T08:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=26675"},"modified":"2012-11-12T00:09:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T08:09:25","slug":"ladybird-beetles-abound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/26675","title":{"rendered":"fly away, fly away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">What&#8217;s happening here?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image wp-image-26697\" title=\"gift_gab-ladybugs-3274\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/gift_gab-ladybugs-3274.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"256\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ladybugs!!! Or as the Europeans call them, Ladybird Beetles.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image wp-image-26684\" title=\"gift_gab-ladybugs-3248\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/gift_gab-ladybugs-3248.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"461\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Walking through the fields next to the farm, I came across these little ladies (and gents?) having themselves a very close picnic get-together. Apparently, the wintering habits of ladybugs brings them together like this. Crazy, huh? They call the little cuddle puddles they make &#8220;aggregates.&#8221; The more ladybugs, the merrier, because next summer, they&#8217;ll dine on\u00a0those rascally aphids that\u00a0eat my cabbages and kales.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"gift_gab-ladybugs-3251\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/gift_gab-ladybugs-3251.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"366\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I think the photo-taking was slightly disturbing to their reverie. Some of them started climbing the wheat. But strangely, I didn&#8217;t see them take flight. Fun fact: Ladybugs won&#8217;t fly if it is under 55\u00b0F.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image wp-image-26695\" title=\"gift_gab-ladybugs-13263\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/gift_gab-ladybugs-13263.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"464\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s happening here? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/26675\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[501,549],"class_list":["post-26675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gift_for_gab","tag-ladybugs","tag-maryjanes-gift-for-gab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}