{"id":971,"date":"2010-12-06T08:10:14","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T15:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/?p=971"},"modified":"2010-12-06T08:10:14","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T15:10:14","slug":"bugs-seem-to-enjoy-mating-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/?p=971","title":{"rendered":"Bugs seem to enjoy mating, too."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net.previewdns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Striped-bug-sex.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-972\" title=\"Striped bug sex\" src=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net.previewdns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Striped-bug-sex.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Striped-bug-sex.jpg 576w, http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Striped-bug-sex-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><strong>July 15, 2010-By John Blair, valleywatch.net editor. Photo\u00a92010 John Blair<\/strong><br \/>\nAlthough I have been recovering from some serious neck  surgery for about four weeks now and have not had time to tend to the  Valley Watch Garden as I should, there is still lots of activity going  on with flowers blooming and dying off etc.<\/p>\n<p>In this picture two  bugs of unknown species, at least to me were enjoying and &#8220;afternoon  delight&#8221; as they attempted to propagate their species on a zinnia leaf  in front of the office.<\/p>\n<p>The colorful bugs had an interesting way of doing that as they used their back ends propped up against on another.<\/p>\n<p>I was mot impressed with their brilliant turquoise, orange and yellow colors.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 15, 2010-By John Blair, valleywatch.net editor. Photo\u00a92010 John Blair Although I have been recovering from some serious neck surgery for about four weeks now and have not had time to tend to the Valley Watch Garden as I should, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/?p=971\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/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-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":973,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}