{"id":1071,"date":"2012-06-05T23:35:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T04:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2012-06-09T20:35:58","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T01:35:58","slug":"yponomeuta-multipunctella-american-ermine-moth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=1071","title":{"rendered":"<em>Yponomeuta multipunctella<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1074\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/img_20120605_037619.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1074\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/img_20120605_037619-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Yponomeuta multipunctella (American Ermine Moth)\" title=\"&lt;em&gt;Yponomeuta multipunctella&lt;\/em&gt; (American Ermine Moth)\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1074\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/img_20120605_037619-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/img_20120605_037619-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/img_20120605_037619-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/img_20120605_037619-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/img_20120605_037619.jpg 833w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1074\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Yponomeuta multipunctella<\/em> (American Ermine Moth)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Since I thought I had been denied the chance to see Venus silhouetted against the sun, I decided to take a few pictures in the yard when I got home. While I was doing that, Cathy came out and we chatted about this and that, going over our days. I sat in a lawn chair which happened to be near the driveway and while we were talking I noticed this little white moth on the side of our car (which, as you probably guessed, is red). At first I identified it as a Mimosa Webworm Moth, <em>Homadaula anisocentra<\/em>, which is native to Japan and China and was first found in the U.S. in Washington D.C. in 1943. After a little more research, though, I decided that it&#8217;s much more likely to be an American Ermine Moth (<em>Yponomeuta multipunctella<\/em>). As it turned out, I was able to get a picture of Venus, as well, even if it wasn&#8217;t a particularly great picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I thought I had been denied the chance to see Venus silhouetted against the sun, I decided to take a few pictures in the yard when I got home. While I was doing that, Cathy came out and we chatted about this and that, going over our days. I sat in a lawn chair &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=1071\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1097,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/1097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}