{"id":1222,"date":"2012-06-28T23:47:14","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T04:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2012-06-29T11:00:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T16:00:15","slug":"macrosiagon-limbata-wedge-shaped-beetle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=1222","title":{"rendered":"<em>Macrosiagon limbata<\/em> (Wedge-shaped Beetle)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1224\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/img_20120628_038751.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1224\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/img_20120628_038751-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Macrosiagon limbata (Wedge-shaped Beetle)\" title=\"&lt;em&gt;Macrosiagon limbata&lt;\/em&gt; (Wedge-shaped Beetle)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/img_20120628_038751-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/img_20120628_038751-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/img_20120628_038751-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/img_20120628_038751-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/img_20120628_038751.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1224\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Macrosiagon limbata<\/em> (Wedge-shaped Beetle)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I went out with my camera on a tripod to take some bee pictures around the mountain mint this afternoon. There were a lot of bumble bees and a few tarantula hawk wasps around. For all their size, the tarantula hawks are quite shy and are hard to get close enough to. I&#8217;ll get them eventually but didn&#8217;t today. I did find this little wedge-shaped beetle, a <em>Macrosiagon limbata<\/em>, on one of the flowers. It&#8217;s about a centimeter long. I don&#8217;t know about this species in particular but some members of the family Ripiphoridae are parasitic on bees and vespid wasps. So, waiting on the mountain mint was probably a good choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went out with my camera on a tripod to take some bee pictures around the mountain mint this afternoon. There were a lot of bumble bees and a few tarantula hawk wasps around. For all their size, the tarantula hawks are quite shy and are hard to get close enough to. I&#8217;ll get them &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=1222\">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\/1222"}],"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=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1225,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions\/1225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}