{"id":1308,"date":"2012-07-14T23:17:48","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T04:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2012-07-16T07:21:39","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T12:21:39","slug":"sphecius-speciosus-eastern-cicada-killer-wasp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=1308","title":{"rendered":"<em>Sphecius speciosus<\/em> (Eastern Cicada Killer Wasp)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1310\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/img_20120714_039484.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1310\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/img_20120714_039484-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Sphecius speciosus (Eastern Cicada Killer)\" title=\"&lt;em&gt;Sphecius speciosus&lt;\/em&gt; (Eastern Cicada Killer)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/img_20120714_039484-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/img_20120714_039484-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/img_20120714_039484-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/img_20120714_039484-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/img_20120714_039484.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1310\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Sphecius speciosus<\/em> (Eastern Cicada Killer)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On the sandy shore of Pinchot Lake, where we camped last night, there was a sign warning campers that there were cicada killer wasps laying their eggs. As you may have figured out by now, I&#8217;m not particularly scared of wasps and I thought I&#8217;d see how close I could get for a picture. As you can see, I did reasonably well. This wasp is a good 3 to 4 cm long and pretty formidable looking but they didn&#8217;t bother me as I walked among them, being careful not to step on their burrows, of course.<\/p>\n<p>As their name implies, they sting and paralyze cicadas, bury them in the sand, and lay an eggs on the last cicada. When the egg hatches, the larva has a nice source of food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the sandy shore of Pinchot Lake, where we camped last night, there was a sign warning campers that there were cicada killer wasps laying their eggs. As you may have figured out by now, I&#8217;m not particularly scared of wasps and I thought I&#8217;d see how close I could get for a picture. As &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=1308\">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\/1308"}],"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=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1324,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions\/1324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}