{"id":12573,"date":"2017-07-02T17:43:48","date_gmt":"2017-07-02T22:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12573"},"modified":"2017-07-04T14:23:31","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T19:23:31","slug":"leaf-beetle-family-chrysomelidae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12573","title":{"rendered":"Leaf Beetle (Family Chrysomelidae)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12575\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170702_143413c.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12575\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170702_143413c-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Leaf Beetle (Chrysomelidae)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12575\" data-wp-pid=\"12575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170702_143413c-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170702_143413c-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170702_143413c-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170702_143413c-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170702_143413c-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170702_143413c.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12575\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leaf Beetle (Chrysomelidae)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I was out taking pictures in the yard again this afternoon and happened to look at the same flower on which I took the picture of the <em>Scudderia<\/em> nymph two days ago (see: <a href=\"?p=12563\" target=\"_20170630\">Friday, June 30, 2017 <\/a>). The outer ray florets, the &#x2018;petals&#x2019; of the coneflower, were all tattered and eaten into. The culprit was this little beetle (well, a bunch of them, actually). It is a leaf beetle (family Chrysomelidae), probably in the subfamily Eumolpinae. If I get a more definitive identification, I&#8217;ll update this post. It&#8217;s a little beetle, less than 5mm long so I wasn&#8217;t able to get a close as necessary to really get a good picture, but this one turned out well enough to use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was out taking pictures in the yard again this afternoon and happened to look at the same flower on which I took the picture of the Scudderia nymph two days ago (see: Friday, June 30, 2017 ). The outer ray florets, the &#x2018;petals&#x2019; of the coneflower, were all tattered and eaten into. The culprit &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12573\">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\/12573"}],"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=12573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12578,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12573\/revisions\/12578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}