{"id":12605,"date":"2017-07-07T13:03:26","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T18:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12605"},"modified":"2017-07-10T17:56:31","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T22:56:31","slug":"lady-beetle-larva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12605","title":{"rendered":"Lady Beetle Larva"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12607\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170707_143596.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12607\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170707_143596-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Lady Beetle Larva\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12607\" data-wp-pid=\"12607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170707_143596-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170707_143596-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170707_143596-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170707_143596-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170707_143596-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170707_143596.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lady Beetle Larva<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It was a beautiful, if somewhat hot afternoon today and I went out into the woods next to my building. As I walked through the underbrush under the sycamore, tulip poplar, redbud, walnut, and black cherry trees, I noticed this little creature on a leaf. This is the larva of a lady beetle. The family Coccinellidae, the lady beetles, has about 6,000 species in 360 genera worldwide and nearly 500 in eastern North America. I have no idea to which of those this larva belongs and I&#8217;m not even going to try to figure it out. The adults are generally easier to narrow down but to me, anyway, the larva are just too much alike. I found a key to the larva of North American lady beetles but it starts out as follows. Tell me how helpful this is to you:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mandible with digitiform teeth, retinaculum absent; terga with scoli, sometimes with parascoli; frontoclypeal suture complete; antenna long, 3 or more times as long as wide, of nearly uniform diameter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a beautiful, if somewhat hot afternoon today and I went out into the woods next to my building. As I walked through the underbrush under the sycamore, tulip poplar, redbud, walnut, and black cherry trees, I noticed this little creature on a leaf. This is the larva of a lady beetle. The family &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12605\">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":[73,133,132,72],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12605"}],"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=12605"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12615,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12605\/revisions\/12615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}