{"id":12642,"date":"2017-07-13T14:20:13","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T19:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12642"},"modified":"2017-07-18T17:41:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T22:41:11","slug":"melittia-cucurbitae-squash-vine-borer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12642","title":{"rendered":"<em>Melittia cucurbitae<\/em> (Squash Vine Borer)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12644\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170713_143805.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12644\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170713_143805-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Melittia cucurbitae (Squash Vine Borer)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12644\" data-wp-pid=\"12644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170713_143805-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170713_143805-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170713_143805-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170713_143805-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170713_143805-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170713_143805.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12644\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Melittia cucurbitae<\/em> (Squash Vine Borer)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I went out to take pictures of a carpenter bee this afternoon but before I got to where she was, I saw this moth, a squash vine borer (<em>Melittia cucurbitae<\/em>), on the Herrenhausen oregano (<em>Origanum laevigatum<\/em> &#8216;Herrenhausen&#8217;). It&#8217;s not a terribly good specimen. Much of the orange on its abdomen has been rubbed off, but it&#8217;s a pretty distinctive little clearwing moth (family Sesiidae). I got some good photos of the carpenter bee, as well, but since I&#8217;m almost certain to have more photos of those I decided to post this one instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went out to take pictures of a carpenter bee this afternoon but before I got to where she was, I saw this moth, a squash vine borer (Melittia cucurbitae), on the Herrenhausen oregano (Origanum laevigatum &#8216;Herrenhausen&#8217;). It&#8217;s not a terribly good specimen. Much of the orange on its abdomen has been rubbed off, but &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12642\">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\/12642"}],"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=12642"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12647,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12642\/revisions\/12647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}