{"id":12809,"date":"2017-08-16T14:51:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T19:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12809"},"modified":"2017-08-17T20:51:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T01:51:42","slug":"oebalus-pugnax-rice-stink-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12809","title":{"rendered":"<em>Oebalus pugnax<\/em> (Rice Stink Bug)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12811\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170816_145735.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12811\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170816_145735-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Oebalus pugnax (Rice Stink Bug)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12811\" data-wp-pid=\"12811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170816_145735-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170816_145735-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170816_145735-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170816_145735-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170816_145735-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170816_145735.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12811\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Oebalus pugnax<\/em> (Rice Stink Bug)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We have had a relatively mild August this year. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s any sort of record or where it stands in comparison to averages but it has definitely been on the cool side. Today, however, it was hot. I went out into the empty lot this afternoon and had trouble because there was standing water in a few places. Once I made my way to one of the drainage ponds I sat in the shade and watched the dragonflies darting around over the shallow water. I happened to see this little rice stink bug (<em>Oebalus pugnax<\/em>) on a blade of grass and got two photos before he flew away. This species has characteristic spikes at the front corners of their pronotum (sort of at the &#8216;shoulders&#8217;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have had a relatively mild August this year. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s any sort of record or where it stands in comparison to averages but it has definitely been on the cool side. Today, however, it was hot. I went out into the empty lot this afternoon and had trouble because there was &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12809\">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":[183,121,184],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12809"}],"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=12809"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12813,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12809\/revisions\/12813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}