{"id":1317,"date":"2009-03-22T21:51:09","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T21:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2014-08-07T19:57:26","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T19:57:26","slug":"photo-of-the-week-57-wasp-on-brambles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/2009\/03\/22\/photo-of-the-week-57-wasp-on-brambles\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo of the Week 57 &#8211; Hoverfly on Brambles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of many shots that I&#8217;ve taken while mountain biking along the towpath of the Royal Canal in and around Maynooth. This particular shot was taken between Pike&#8217;s Bridge and Deey Bridge (just outside the Intel plant in Leixlip). On this section the towpath is not paved in any way, there isn&#8217;t even a gravel path, it&#8217;s just a grassy trail. There&#8217;s a lot more nature to be seen along these un-developed stretches of the towpath, so I enjoy cycling here the most, even if that does mean getting muddy sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not really sure exactly what insect this is, but I&#8217;m assuming it&#8217;s some species of Wasp (if anyone does know please post a comment). The flowers however I can identify, they&#8217;re Bramble\/Blackberry (Rubus fruticosus agg.) blossoms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic;\"><strong style=\"color:red;\">Update:<\/strong> Tom Gleeson has identified the insect as a particular species of Hoverfly &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Helophilus_pendulus\" target=\"_blank\">Helophilus pendulus<\/a>, thanks Tom!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/wasponbrambleblossom.jpg\" alt=\"Wasp on Brambles\" style=\"border-width:0px;\" width=\"450\" height=\"356\" \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bbusschots\/3220737693\/\" target=\"_blank\">on Flickr<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bbusschots\/3220737693\/sizes\/o\/\" target=\"_blank\">Full-Size<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Camera:<\/strong> Nikon D40<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lens:<\/strong> Nikon DX AFS 55-200mm<\/li>\n<li><strong>Exposure:<\/strong> 1\/160 sec<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focal Length:<\/strong> 200mm<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focal Ratio:<\/strong> F20<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISO:<\/strong> 200<\/li>\n<li><strong>Camera Mode:<\/strong> Aperture Priority<\/li>\n<li><strong>Exposure Bias:<\/strong> -0.67<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of many shots that I&#8217;ve taken while mountain biking along the towpath of the Royal Canal in and around Maynooth. This particular shot was taken between Pike&#8217;s Bridge and Deey Bridge (just outside the Intel plant in Leixlip). On this section the towpath is not paved in any way, there isn&#8217;t even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[57,165,31,35,167,28],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-flower","tag-insect","tag-ireland","tag-kildare","tag-leixlip","tag-photo-of-the-week"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t9xK-lf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1322,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions\/1322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}