{"id":9819,"date":"2025-07-23T17:53:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T21:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/?p=9819"},"modified":"2025-07-23T17:53:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T21:53:59","slug":"skeeter-hawk-bath-2025-07-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/skeeter-hawk-bath-2025-07-21.html","title":{"rendered":"Skeeter hawk bath 2025-07-21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\nThis dragonfly repeatedly swooped down to the dog bath water and up.\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%;font-style:italic\">\r\n<a title=\"Movie: Dragonfly drinking (34M)\" name=\"DD:Movie-Dragonfly-drinking-34M\" href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2025-07-21--dragonfly-dog-bath\/20250721_122312.html\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2025-07-21--dragonfly-dog-bath\/20250721_122312.jpg\"  alt=\"[Movie: Dragonfly drinking (34M)]\"><\/a>\r\n<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2025-07-21--dragonfly-dog-bath\/20250721_122312.html\">Movie: Dragonfly drinking (34M)<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<P>\r\nI&#8217;m guessing it was drinking.\r\n<p>\r\nMaybe this is how they lay eggs?\r\nIf so, it will be disappointed, since we do change the dog bath water from time to time.\r\n<p>\r\nIt&#8217;s much easier to see the insect in the video:\r\n<br>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/zqUusDsAhpA\">\r\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/zqUusDsAhpA<\/a><!--more-->\r\n\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%;font-style:italic\">\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zqUusDsAhpA?si=UKFCRRd_5JmeQkDq\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This dragonfly repeatedly swooped down to the dog bath water and up. Movie: Dragonfly drinking (34M) I&#8217;m guessing it was drinking. Maybe this is how they lay eggs? If so, it will be disappointed, since we do change the dog bath water from time to time. It&#8217;s much easier to see the insect in the [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[69,6],"tags":[205,3,23,2786,5,2,2760,3685],"class_list":["post-9819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insects","category-okra-paradise-farms","tag-dragonfly","tag-georgia","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-insects","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-lowndes-county","tag-okra-paradise-farms","tag-skeeter-hawk-drinking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-2yn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9819"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9821,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9819\/revisions\/9821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}