{"id":1459,"date":"2007-12-31T20:54:11","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T03:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/31\/guyana-invertebrates\/"},"modified":"2014-12-04T11:15:55","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T18:15:55","slug":"guyana-invertebrates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/31\/guyana-invertebrates\/","title":{"rendered":"Guyana: Invertebrates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All in all, the insects weren&#8217;t bad in Guyana. I did use my bugspray once in a while, and suffered a very few mosquito bites when I didn&#8217;t. Because I wasn&#8217;t itching (well, except for when I wandered off into chiggerland a couple of times), I had leisure to look at some attractive, or at least bizarre!, insects now and again.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/caterpillar-guyana-2007-047.bmp\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When Judy called me over to look at this odd creature, all I could think of was that poem &#8220;A Garden Grows On Her Face,&#8221; or in this case, on her back!\u00c2\u00a0 I wonder what this turned into; don&#8217;t most such highly armed and richly ornamented caterpillars wind up as moths?<\/p>\n<p>Butterflies were terrifically abundant, and it was great to have Narca along to identify so many of them for us. This, to my surprise, turned out to be a satyr, a group that here in the northern hemisphere comprises almost exclusively species clad in discreet brown and gray.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/butterfly-satyr-guyana-2007-255.bmp\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Metalmarks are another group that are modestly hued in temperate climes, but attain great diversity and some wonderful colors in the south.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/butterfly-metalmark-guyana-2007-498.bmp\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And sulphurs, of course, we have with us always, especially in the swampy woods around Surama.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/butterflies-surama-guyana-2007-440.bmp\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not all the insects we ran into were as innocuous as these. There were a couple of incidents involving hymenopterans, and one afternoon at Karanambu I felt a scratch on my calf and turned to discover a large, colorful mantid creeping up my leg.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/mantis-on-my-leg-guyana-2007-616.bmp\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t bite, but I didn&#8217;t let it get much higher, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All in all, the insects weren&#8217;t bad in Guyana. I did use my bugspray once in a while, and suffered a very few mosquito bites when I didn&#8217;t. Because I wasn&#8217;t itching (well, except for when I wandered off into chiggerland a couple of times), I had leisure to look at some attractive, or at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/31\/guyana-invertebrates\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Guyana: Invertebrates&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7537,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions\/7537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}