{"id":5913,"date":"2010-07-06T03:00:39","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T08:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=5913"},"modified":"2010-07-06T03:00:39","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T08:00:39","slug":"5913","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5913","title":{"rendered":"Hit-and-Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Out hiking\/geocaching in the hot, hot sun with my camera, on the trail near South Run Park.<\/p>\n<p><object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/o-X_CiUgO-Q?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/o-X_CiUgO-Q?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object><\/p>\n<p>A number of sources indicate that for some species, female dragonflies dip their abdomens in water to deposit eggs after they&#8217;ve been fertilized; there was a bit of that going on in the stream, along with a bit of tandem flying, if you take my meaning.  Not sure if the collision is territorial, a clumsy mating ritual or just <em>Odonata<\/em> dickishness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out hiking\/geocaching in the hot, hot sun with my camera, on the trail near South Run Park. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video A number of sources indicate that for some species, female dragonflies &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5913\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-science","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}