{"id":13073,"date":"2017-10-10T17:30:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T22:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=13073"},"modified":"2017-10-12T09:23:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T14:23:04","slug":"vespa-crabro-european-hornet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=13073","title":{"rendered":"<em>Vespa crabro<\/em> (European Hornet)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13075\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_20171010_147290.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13075\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_20171010_147290-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Vespa crabro (European Hornet)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13075\" data-wp-pid=\"13075\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_20171010_147290-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_20171010_147290-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_20171010_147290-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_20171010_147290-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_20171010_147290-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_20171010_147290.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13075\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Vespa crabro<\/em> (European Hornet)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I went out back to see what I could find to photograph this evening. There was a painted lady (<em>Vanessa cardui<\/em>) butterfly on the <em>Buddleia<\/em> and I got some reasonable but not great pictures of that. Then I noticed this large, yellow and brown wasp on the steps. This is a large wasp, about 2cm in length. Not as big as the eastern cicada killer (<em>Sphecius speciosus<\/em>) but still a pretty good size. As the common name implies, these are native to Eurasia. They were introduced to eastern North America in the 1800s. They are one of the many wasps to build paper nests out of chewed wood pulp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went out back to see what I could find to photograph this evening. There was a painted lady (Vanessa cardui) butterfly on the Buddleia and I got some reasonable but not great pictures of that. Then I noticed this large, yellow and brown wasp on the steps. This is a large wasp, about 2cm &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=13073\">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":[231,73,121,232,134,68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13073"}],"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=13073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13076,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13073\/revisions\/13076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}