{"id":50716,"date":"2015-07-21T11:00:15","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=50716"},"modified":"2015-07-20T15:35:57","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T19:35:57","slug":"weekly-wildlife-at-the-garden-bumbling-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2015\/07\/wildlife\/weekly-wildlife-at-the-garden-bumbling-along\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Wildlife at the Garden: Bumbling Along"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: smaller; color: #808080;\"><em><a title=\"Patricia Gonzalez\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/tag\/patricia-gonzalez\/\">Patricia Gonzalez<\/a> is an <a title=\"The New York Botanical Garden\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\">NYBG<\/a> Visitor Services Attendant and avid wildlife photographer.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr width=\"350\" \/>\n<p>One of the things I love about this time of year is that all of the outdoor gardens surrounding the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/gardens\/conservatory\/index.php\">Haupt Conservatory<\/a>\u2014the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/gardens\/home-gardening\/index.php\">Home Gardening Center<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/gardens\/perennial-garden\/index.php\">Perennial Garden<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/gardens\/seasonal-walk\/index.php\">Seasonal Walk<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/gardens\/ladies-border\/index.php\">Ladies&#8217; Border<\/a> among them\u2014are teaming with bumblebees doing their important work. But my personal favorite place to shoot them is Daffodil\/Daylily Walk. The blazing oranges, purples, and other colors serve as a fantastic backdrop to my winged friends.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/bee.png\"><img data-attachment-id=\"50718\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2015\/07\/wildlife\/weekly-wildlife-at-the-garden-bumbling-along\/attachment\/bee\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/bee.png\" data-orig-size=\"1200,864\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Bumblebee\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/bee-300x216.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/bee-1024x737.png\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-50718\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/bee-1024x737.png\" alt=\"Bumblebee\" width=\"570\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/bee-1024x737.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/bee-300x216.png 300w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/bee.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A bumblebee (<em>Bombus<\/em>) along <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/gardens\/plants\/daylilies.php\">Daylily Walk<\/a> \u2013 Photo by Patricia Gonzalez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around this time of year, the outdoor collections surrounding the Haupt Conservatory are teeming with bumblebees doing their busy work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":50718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[34],"tags":[4159,4687,1360,4640],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/bee.png","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-dc0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50716"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50720,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50716\/revisions\/50720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}