{"id":703,"date":"2014-07-17T18:52:58","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T18:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/?p=703"},"modified":"2014-08-06T09:12:11","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T09:12:11","slug":"of-bilberries-and-froghoppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/?p=703","title":{"rendered":"Of Bilberries and Froghoppers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 61<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m posting this a couple of days late just as I’m being a bit lazy. I delayed my normal lunchtime walk for a work from home day until the evening as I wasn’t really feeling like it at lunchtime. It was quite a muggy evening but everything was quite dry – no gaiter weather. Our thistle is getting a bit past its best but it’s neighbour has now flowered<\/p>\n

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Things are changing so fast at this stage – some of blackberries have berries forming and are well past the flowering stage, while others are still flowering.<\/p>\n

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Further on, a few of the bilberries are developing nicely but they don’t seem to have done very well this year – there are very few. Ardagh mountain isn’t really quite high enough for bilberries to thrive but the do make quite a tasty little snack for late summer walks.<\/p>\n

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It is funny how you take time to find things out when your children ask you, but I had myself wondered since I was a child what “cuckoo-spit” was. It is fairly abundant at this time of year although is isn’t too prevalent later in the day. Anyway, I looked it up and discovered it is a defence mechanism of the Froghopper nymph. The secret the foam and then hide from predators inside the foamy mass while living off plant sap. So that’s that mystery solved.<\/p>\n

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Day 61 I’m posting this a couple of days late just as I’m being a bit lazy. I delayed my normal lunchtime walk for a work from home day until the evening as I wasn’t really feeling like it at lunchtime. It was quite a muggy evening but everything was quite dry – no gaiter … Continue reading Of Bilberries and Froghoppers<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,2],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paARl1-bl","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}