{"id":12696,"date":"2017-07-25T13:35:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T18:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12696"},"modified":"2017-08-04T21:00:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T02:00:55","slug":"melanoplus-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12696","title":{"rendered":"<em>Melanoplus<\/em> Species"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12698\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170725_144277.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12698\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170725_144277-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"&lt;em&gt;Melanoplus&lt;\/em&gt; Species\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12698\" data-wp-pid=\"12698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170725_144277-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170725_144277-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170725_144277-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170725_144277-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170725_144277-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170725_144277.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12698\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Melanoplus<\/em> Species<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It was a hot but beautiful day and I went out into the lot next to my office this afternoon. I saw and photographed a young white-tailed deer (<em>Odocoileus virginianus<\/em>), an eastern tailed-blue (<em>Cupido comyntas<\/em>), an eastern bumble bee (<em>Bombus impatiens<\/em>), and an eastern carpenter bee (<em>Xylocopa virginica<\/em>). As I sat next to a dried up drainage pond I watched grasshoppers moving around. I was able to get close enough to this one to get a pretty good photograph. This is one of over 260 <em>Melanoplus<\/em> species, which are spur-throated grasshoppers, subfamily Melanoplinae of the short-horned grasshoppers, family Acrididae. After I came back to my parking lot, I walked down to the pond and saw a pair of belted kingfishers (<em>Megaceryle alcyon<\/em>) and got a pictures of one that&#8217;s good enough to confirm the sighting but not much better than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a hot but beautiful day and I went out into the lot next to my office this afternoon. I saw and photographed a young white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), an eastern tailed-blue (Cupido comyntas), an eastern bumble bee (Bombus impatiens), and an eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica). As I sat next to a dried &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12696\">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":[152,153,73],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12696"}],"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=12696"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12701,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12696\/revisions\/12701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}