{"id":8085,"date":"2018-08-10T01:07:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T01:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=8085"},"modified":"2018-08-10T01:07:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T01:07:27","slug":"the-secret-world-of-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=8085","title":{"rendered":"The Secret World of Leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Some sort of eggs under a zucchini leaf.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_2415.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8089\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_2415.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">There&#8217;s a Japanese party at the currant plant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_2523.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8087\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_2523.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I have no idea what is going on there, at a first glance, it looks like ants are gathering sunflower seeds (this is a sunflower plant); yet upon closer inspection, other insects are involved and and the seed looking things could be their cocoons. Maybe some aphids the ants are raising?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_0909.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8086\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_0909.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I found several of these neatly folded birch trees leaves. Some halfway done and tied up with some web. I opened one up but whatever natural cycle this is was already over and there was nothing in there but refuse of some sort. I love the idea that some insect is making a little sleeping bag with available material.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_2541.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8088\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_2541.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Petals are leaves come on, a bumble bee got in and the other insect decided it wasn&#8217;t welcome in that flower any longer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_2411.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8090\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_2411.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some sort of eggs under a zucchini leaf. &nbsp; There&#8217;s a Japanese party at the currant plant. &nbsp; I have no idea what is going on there, at a first glance, it looks like ants are gathering sunflower seeds (this is a sunflower plant); yet upon closer inspection, other insects are involved and and the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=8085\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Secret World of Leaves&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,145,160,161,228],"class_list":["post-8085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature-encounters","tag-ants","tag-insects","tag-leaf","tag-leaves","tag-secret-worlds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}