{"id":12594,"date":"2017-07-05T13:27:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T18:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12594"},"modified":"2017-07-06T11:49:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T16:49:43","slug":"japanese-beetle-popillia-japonica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12594","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Beetle (<em>Popillia japonica<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12596\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170705_143547.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12596\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170705_143547-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Japanese Beetle (Popillia japonica)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12596\" data-wp-pid=\"12596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170705_143547-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170705_143547-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170705_143547-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170705_143547-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170705_143547-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170705_143547.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12596\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Japanese Beetle (<em>Popillia japonica<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It was a slightly less warm but every bit as humid day today. I went to eat my lunch in the empty lot next to my building, sitting on the edge of a now-dry drainage pond. This pond rarely has more than a few inches of water in it but the water is gone and the mud has cracked and is only damp. I had expected to see more insects there but I suppose it&#8217;s dry enough that even they have moved to somewhere with a bit more water. I took some pictures of the flowers of some softstem bulrush (<em>Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani<\/em>) and this Japanese beetle (<em>Popillia japonica<\/em>) came and landed right in front of me. I was able to get four quick shots before it flew away. In this, the last of the four, its wings are just starting to open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a slightly less warm but every bit as humid day today. I went to eat my lunch in the empty lot next to my building, sitting on the edge of a now-dry drainage pond. This pond rarely has more than a few inches of water in it but the water is gone and &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12594\">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":[127,121,128,72,129],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12594"}],"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=12594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12597,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12594\/revisions\/12597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}