{"id":8592,"date":"2024-05-30T08:14:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T08:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=8592"},"modified":"2024-05-30T08:14:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T08:14:16","slug":"hunting-neotinea-ustulata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2024\/05\/30\/hunting-neotinea-ustulata\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunting Neotinea ustulata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The arresting <a href=\"https:\/\/first-nature.com\/flowers\/neotinea-ustulata.php\">burnt (tip) orchid<\/a> is the county flower of Wiltshire. \u00a0We went hunting for it the other day on Salisbury Plain at a remote site we know where it can be found. \u00a0We were not disappointed. \u00a0Although the site does not seem to be carefully managed these days (it's military land) we saw around 20 of them, mostly singles but also in a characteristic clump. \u00a0Worth the long tramp along rough tracks \u2013 and on a deeply rutted, risk to your car's bottom, road even to get to the tracks. \u00a0The pothole-loving military neglects this road simply to deter people like us.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, we had the land and its extensive landscape all to ourselves. \u00a0It's always a quiet place with silence only interrupted by many larks and the odd Apache helicopter. \u00a0It's also a place at this time of year to see butterfly orchids, fragrant orchids, heath spotted orchids, common twayblades, sainfoin, broomrapes, horseshoe vetch, heath milkwort, yellow rattle, wall brown butterflies, six-spot burnet moths, and more \u2013 and we did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The arresting burnt (tip) orchid is the county flower of Wiltshire. \u00a0We went hunting for it the other day on Salisbury Plain at a remote site we know where it can be found. \u00a0We were not disappointed. \u00a0Although the site...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}