{"id":167,"date":"2014-04-11T16:44:26","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T20:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/aphanotus\/?p=167"},"modified":"2019-09-03T11:43:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T15:43:51","slug":"the-arrival-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/aphanotus\/2014\/04\/11\/the-arrival-of-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"The arrival of spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_173\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/aphanotus\/files\/2014\/04\/first-insect-2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-173\" class=\" wp-image-173 \" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/aphanotus\/files\/2014\/04\/first-insect-2014.jpg\" alt=\"first insect 2014\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/aphanotus\/files\/2014\/04\/first-insect-2014.jpg 572w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/aphanotus\/files\/2014\/04\/first-insect-2014-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spring has arrived.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I sometimes have to resist the instinct to collect insects. However, during winter in Maine, it&#8217;s not much of an issue. So I was please to see this stonefly, so I could celebrate the arrival of spring. \u00a0Actually, this was on the outside of our kitchen window, so I didn&#8217;t collect it. This is only our second winter in Maine, but locals have told me it&#8217;s been long and cold, even by their standards. So I can&#8217;t say whether April 3 is late for the emergence of these insects. However, it&#8217;s certainly late completed to the more southern states, we&#8217;re used to. Of course, this isn&#8217;t quite the first the insect of 2014. Rowan has already found a wholly bear roaming about, and we managed to somehow get thrips on an &#8220;indoor lawn&#8221; that Serena started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sometimes have to resist the instinct to collect insects. However, during winter in Maine, it&#8217;s not much of an issue. So I was please to see this stonefly, so I could celebrate the arrival of spring. \u00a0Actually, this was&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/aphanotus\/2014\/04\/11\/the-arrival-of-spring\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5169,"featured_media":292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/aphanotus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/aphanotus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/aphanotus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/aphanotus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/aphanotus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/aphanotus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/aphanotus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/aphanotus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/aphanotus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/aphanotus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/aphanotus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}