{"id":46,"date":"2011-02-28T11:43:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T19:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/?p=46"},"modified":"2011-02-28T11:43:59","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T19:43:59","slug":"bugs-above","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Bugs Above"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today on the Endless Swarm, one of my favorite Krulwich videos about insects, from the Morning Edition entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=128389587\">Look Up! The Billion-Bug Highway You Can&#8217;t See<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Look Up! The Billion-Bug Highway You Can&#039;t See | Krulwich Wonders | NPR\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-QxfOYhpjro?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I was reminded of this amazing fact when hiking in Napa yesterday. In the early spring cold, there wasn&#8217;t much in the way of insects in the forested understory of Bale Grist Mill State Park, save for a few flies warming themselves on the rare patch of dappled sunlight, and a few newly-moulted mayflies on streamside rocks, awaiting the sclerotization of their soft exoskeletons. But if I allowed myself to look up, I could see huge swarms of insects, flies and midges and moths and more, spiraling up the column of air high in the canopy, far from any easy observation.\u00a0 It&#8217;s times like this I regret my lot as a terrestrial flat-footed ape!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today on the Endless Swarm, one of my favorite Krulwich videos about insects, from the Morning Edition entitled &#8220;Look Up! The Billion-Bug Highway You Can&#8217;t See.&#8221; I was reminded of this amazing fact when hiking in Napa yesterday. In the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/?p=46\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,38],"tags":[43,44,505,45,47,46],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-insect","category-science","tag-cold","tag-hiking","tag-insect","tag-napa","tag-npr","tag-robert-krulwich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}