{"id":2054,"date":"2008-07-12T21:45:10","date_gmt":"2008-07-13T05:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anirama.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/yellowjackets\/"},"modified":"2008-07-12T21:45:10","modified_gmt":"2008-07-13T05:45:10","slug":"yellowjackets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/2008\/07\/12\/photography\/yellowjackets\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellowjackets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were eating dinner outside the other evening and were raided by about a dozen yellowjackets. While shooing them away I shot a few pictures of one of them chewing off a bit of meat and carrying it away. I decided to try and get better pictures, so today I set out a chunk of chicken to attract them back, and sat in wait for my models. Eventually a few came, along with a curious fly. (click on images to see full size versions on flickr)<\/p>\n<p>Coming in for a landing, and starting to chew:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rosendahl\/2663053242\/\" title=\"On Approach by rosendahl, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3166\/2663053242_73f6dee461_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" alt=\"On Approach\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rosendahl\/2663053368\/\" title=\"Chewing Off A Chunk by rosendahl, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3177\/2663053368_2b4caba98c_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" alt=\"Chewing Off A Chunk\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe curious fly, and leaving with a chunk o&#8217; chicken:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rosendahl\/2663053474\/\" title=\"Fly By by rosendahl, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3162\/2663053474_9359c1f6a0_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" alt=\"Fly By\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rosendahl\/2663053586\/\" title=\"Takin' the Bait by rosendahl, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3001\/2663053586_3bd8ea1791_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" alt=\"Takin' the Bait\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nInteresting creatures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were eating dinner outside the other evening and were raided by about a dozen yellowjackets. While shooing them away I shot a few pictures of one of them chewing off a bit of meat and carrying it away. I decided to try and get better pictures, so today I set out a chunk of  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}