{"id":1882,"date":"2021-06-25T10:37:06","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T10:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/?p=1882"},"modified":"2021-07-07T18:50:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T18:50:37","slug":"insects-known-and-unknown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/2021\/06\/25\/insects-known-and-unknown\/","title":{"rendered":"Insects known and unknown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was happy to get these photos of the very busy Hummingbird Moth. The photos are highly cropped. The moth&#8217;s coloration is so extravagant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_3041.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_3041.jpg 500w, https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_3041-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_3041-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Hemaris thysbe, the Hummingbird Clearwing Moth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_3042.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_3042.jpg 500w, https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_3042-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_3042-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The unknown creature below came in on an escarole leaf. At first I thought it was a spot of dirt. I touched it and it disappeared. It turns out it is a winged creature. It was very interested in settling on the kitchen windowpane where it stayed still for a photograph. It seems to be pointing head down. I can&#8217;t figure it out. A few different photos to show the scale. It is tiny. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_3045.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1844\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_3045.jpg 500w, https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_3045-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_3045-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_3044.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_3044.jpg 500w, https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_3044-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"246\" src=\"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_3046.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1845\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_3046.jpg 500w, https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_3046-300x148.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was happy to get these photos of the very busy Hummingbird Moth. The photos are highly cropped. The moth&#8217;s coloration is so extravagant. The unknown creature below came in on an escarole leaf. At first I thought it was a spot of dirt. I touched it and it disappeared. It turns out it is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/2021\/06\/25\/insects-known-and-unknown\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Insects known and unknown<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1882"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1925,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions\/1925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}