{"id":31005,"date":"2023-04-10T11:33:55","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T09:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=31005"},"modified":"2023-04-10T11:40:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T09:40:41","slug":"two-spring-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=31005","title":{"rendered":"Two spring signs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This spring sign today went unnoticed for many years, one of many moth species that has been registered feeding on <em>Salix caprea<\/em> (goat willow \/ selje) in spring, soon to be in flower here: this is the satellite \/ b\u00f8lgefly (<em>Eupsilia transversa<\/em>); it overwinters as an adult. I&#8217;ve recorded it over the last few years from 14th March to 2nd May and once in the autumn. Its larval food plants are a variety of broad-leaved trees and shrubs including blackthorn, hawthorn, hazel, field maple, sweet chestnut and elms (all of which are found in the garden).<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31006 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/B\u00f8lgeflyP2120743-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1922\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/B\u00f8lgeflyP2120743-scaled.jpg 2560w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/B\u00f8lgeflyP2120743-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/B\u00f8lgeflyP2120743-1024x769.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/B\u00f8lgeflyP2120743-768x577.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/B\u00f8lgeflyP2120743-1536x1153.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/B\u00f8lgeflyP2120743-2048x1538.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/B\u00f8lgeflyP2120743-640x481.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/> The first bumblebees have been out in the garden this week on snowdrops and Crocus, here a tree bumblebee \/ trehumle (Bombus hypnorum), one of the commonest species here. It will too soon move over to goat willow (selje)!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31007 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Trehumle_sn\u00f8klokke.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Trehumle_sn\u00f8klokke.png 563w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Trehumle_sn\u00f8klokke-300x281.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This spring sign today went unnoticed for many years, one of many moth species that has been registered feeding on Salix caprea (goat willow \/ selje) in spring, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[227,1406,3122],"tags":[3880,4800,4797,4801,3445,4429,2912,4798,4794,4799,3881,3882],"class_list":["post-31005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bees","category-butterflies-and-moths","category-pollinators","tag-bombus-hypnorum","tag-bolgefly","tag-crocus","tag-eupsilia-transversa","tag-goat-willow","tag-selje","tag-snowdrop","tag-snoklokke","tag-spring-signs","tag-the-satellite","tag-tree-bumblebee","tag-trehumle"],"views":1667,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31005"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31010,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31005\/revisions\/31010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}