{"id":94,"date":"2006-07-02T14:57:44","date_gmt":"2006-07-02T13:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/94"},"modified":"2006-07-11T11:24:32","modified_gmt":"2006-07-11T10:24:32","slug":"leaf-cutter-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/94","title":{"rendered":"Leaf Cutter Bee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While sitting out in the garden recently eating dinner, we were attracted by audible munching noises from our wisteria plant. Further investigation showed a bee-like creature neatly chopping an oval piece out of a leaf then flying away with its prize. It then returned for another piece of leaf, and then several more.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"276\" height=\"212\" alt=\"Leaf Cutter Bee\" class=\"centered\" src=\"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/leafcutterbee.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Later research told us that it was indeed a bee&mdash;a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ext.colostate.edu\/pubs\/insect\/05576.html\">leaf cutter bee<\/a> in fact&mdash;a solitary but quite friendly creature that likes wisteria, rose and other leaves as nest making material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While sitting out in the garden recently eating dinner, we were attracted by audible munching noises from our wisteria plant. Further investigation showed a bee-like creature neatly chopping an oval piece out of a leaf then flying away with its prize. It then returned for another piece of leaf, and then several more. Later research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}