{"id":12637,"date":"2017-07-12T19:06:20","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T00:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12637"},"modified":"2017-07-15T08:30:47","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T13:30:47","slug":"oncopeltus-fasciatus-large-milkweed-bug-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12637","title":{"rendered":"<em>Oncopeltus fasciatus<\/em> (Large Milkweed Bug)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12639\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170712_143803.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12639\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170712_143803-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Oncopeltus fasciatus (Large Milkweed Bug)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12639\" data-wp-pid=\"12639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170712_143803-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170712_143803-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170712_143803-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170712_143803-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170712_143803-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170712_143803.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12639\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Oncopeltus fasciatus<\/em> (Large Milkweed Bug)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The butterfly weed (<em>Asclepias tuberosa<\/em>) is in bloom and it&#8217;s a lovely, orange accent in the back of the garden. I&#8217;d be happy to have more of this, either the standard orange or the lovely, yellow variety. I&#8217;d also like to get some <em>Asclepias curassavica<\/em>, known as blood flower, although that&#8217;s not winter hardy anywhere near this far north. It can, apparently, be grown easily as an annual from seed. I might also try to get some <em>Asclepias purpurascens<\/em>, commonly called purple milkweed. It&#8217;s a native and I am pretty sure I&#8217;ve seen it at the farm, so I could dig some up there or get some seeds.<\/p>\n<p>The large milkweed bug (<em>Oncopeltus fasciatus<\/em>) is a common visitor to butterfly weed (one of the milkweed family) and is particularly well suited for hiding among the flowers of <em>A. tuberosa<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa) is in bloom and it&#8217;s a lovely, orange accent in the back of the garden. I&#8217;d be happy to have more of this, either the standard orange or the lovely, yellow variety. I&#8217;d also like to get some Asclepias curassavica, known as blood flower, although that&#8217;s not winter hardy anywhere &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12637\">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":[4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12637"}],"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=12637"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12641,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12637\/revisions\/12641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}