{"id":12848,"date":"2017-08-24T17:35:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T22:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12848"},"modified":"2017-08-26T15:39:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T20:39:33","slug":"monobia-quadridens-four-toothed-mason-wasp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12848","title":{"rendered":"<em>Monobia quadridens<\/em> (Four-toothed Mason Wasp)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12850\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170824_146003.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12850\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170824_146003-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Monobia quadridens (Four-toothed Mason Wasp)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12850\" data-wp-pid=\"12850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170824_146003-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170824_146003-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170824_146003-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170824_146003-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170824_146003-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170824_146003.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12850\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Monobia quadridens<\/em> (Four-toothed Mason Wasp)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I went out back today after work and found this little wasp on the mountain mint. I was only able to get a few half decent pictures of it before it flew off but they are good enough that I&#8217;m pretty sure it is a four-toothed mason wasp (<em>Monobia quadridens<\/em>). Like the potter wasp in yesterday&#8217;s picture, the nests of the four-toothed mason wasp are provisioned with caterpillars. The cells of nests are separated by mud partitions, which is why they are called masons. At least I think that&#8217;s why. Maybe they are members of the fraternal organization of a similar name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went out back today after work and found this little wasp on the mountain mint. I was only able to get a few half decent pictures of it before it flew off but they are good enough that I&#8217;m pretty sure it is a four-toothed mason wasp (Monobia quadridens). Like the potter wasp in &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12848\">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\/12848"}],"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=12848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12851,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12848\/revisions\/12851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}