{"id":4358,"date":"2012-06-09T08:03:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T12:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=4358"},"modified":"2012-06-09T08:03:35","modified_gmt":"2012-06-09T12:03:35","slug":"some-spring-milestones-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/4358","title":{"rendered":"Some spring milestones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a (re)productive spring here at the ranch. Some pictures:<\/p>\n<p>I sighted some fry in one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibcbettas.org\/smp\/species\/macrostoma.html\"><em>Betta macrostoma<\/em><\/a> tanks. They are mouth-brooders; males have had clutches in their gullets before, but this is the first hatch-out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2012-06-05-16.31.09.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4360 aligncenter\" title=\"betta fry\" src=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2012-06-05-16.31.09.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"392\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2012-06-05-16.31.09.jpg 1944w, http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2012-06-05-16.31.09-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2012-06-05-16.31.09-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.understoryenterprises.com\/dart-frog\/dendrobates-leucomelas\"><em>Dendrobates leucomelas<\/em> Guyana Banded<\/a> laid their first eggs. A shot, taken moments ago, of the developing tads.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2012-06-09-07.47.15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4361 aligncenter\" title=\"leuc tads\" src=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2012-06-09-07.47.15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"455\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2012-06-09-07.47.15.jpg 2592w, http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2012-06-09-07.47.15-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2012-06-09-07.47.15-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My tiny little plug of <em>Utricularia jamesoniana<\/em> decided to flower. This is a woo-hoo all out of proportion to the size of the plant: I looked for a division of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnivoras-la.org\/new\/en\/fieldtrip\/U.jamesoniana-09-04-2004.html\"><em>jamesoniana<\/em><\/a> for years and to get one and have it flower within a year is a cause for celebration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Utricularia jamesoniana by john_pittman, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/doncoyote\/7352963160\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7230\/7352963160_710e3505dc.jpg\" alt=\"Utricularia jamesoniana\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And lastly, something I had nothing to do with at all. A Polyphemus Moth on a column at work:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Polyphemus moth by john_pittman, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/doncoyote\/7167742251\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7087\/7167742251_911972c176.jpg\" alt=\"Polyphemus moth\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a (re)productive spring here at the ranch. Some pictures: I sighted some fry in one of the Betta macrostoma tanks. They are mouth-brooders; males have had clutches in their gullets before, but this is the first hatch-out. * &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/4358\">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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plants"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-18i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4358"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4371,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358\/revisions\/4371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}