{"id":32288,"date":"2024-05-28T19:45:55","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T17:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=32288"},"modified":"2024-05-28T21:07:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T19:07:41","slug":"batman-biodiversity-and-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=32288","title":{"rendered":"Batman, biodiversity and food"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I love when my gardening activities attract wildlife and contributes to the biodiversity of this wonderful place!<br \/>I&#8217;m once again growing wapato (<em>Sagittaria latifolia<\/em>) in addition to Chinese arrowhead (probably <em>Sagittaria trifolia<\/em>) in large containers (sorry for the plastic!). I can see these containers from my sitting place in the garden behind the <em>Amelanchier<\/em> hedge and in the heat wave and drought we&#8217;ve been experiencing with record high May temperatures (over 30C not far from here), I&#8217;ve seen several bird species drinking. Today, I found a batman hoverfly (d\u00f8dningehodeblomsterflue; <em>M\u2060yathropa florea<\/em>) in one of the buckets:<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32289\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/P2160833.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/P2160833.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/P2160833-300x287.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32290\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/P2160832.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/P2160832.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/P2160832-300x218.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/P2160832-768x557.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/P2160832-640x464.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32292\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/P5280235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/P5280235.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/P5280235-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/P5280235-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/P5280235-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love when my gardening activities attract wildlife and contributes to the biodiversity of this wonderful place!I&#8217;m once again growing wapato (Sagittaria latifolia) in addition to Chinese arrowhead [&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":[4814],"tags":[5045,4922,5043,5044,4738,3252,5046],"class_list":["post-32288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biodiversity","tag-batman-hoverfly","tag-biodiversity","tag-dodningehodeblomsterflue","tag-myathropa-florea","tag-sagittaria-latifolia","tag-sagittaria-trifolia-var-edulis","tag-water-in-the-garden"],"views":1518,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32288","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=32288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32293,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32288\/revisions\/32293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}