{"id":15268,"date":"2011-08-24T17:16:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T22:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=15268"},"modified":"2018-10-02T15:43:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T20:43:08","slug":"polyphemus-moth-caterpillar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=15268","title":{"rendered":"Polyphemus Moth Caterpillar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15270\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/img_20110824_020352.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15270\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/img_20110824_020352-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Polyphemus Moth Caterpillar\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15270\" data-wp-pid=\"15270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/img_20110824_020352-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/img_20110824_020352-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/img_20110824_020352-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/img_20110824_020352-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/img_20110824_020352-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/img_20110824_020352.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15270\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Polyphemus Moth Caterpillar<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This thing is huge. It&#8217;s as big around as my thumb and as long as my middle finger. Actually, I think it&#8217;s pretty amazing that this big, squishy, green blob turns into a beautiful (and quite large) moth. In this case, a Polyphemus moth (<em>Antheraea polyphemus<\/em>). It&#8217;s named after the Cyclops Polyphemus in Homer&#8217;s Odyssey because of the large \u201ceye spot\u201d on its hindwings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This thing is huge. It&#8217;s as big around as my thumb and as long as my middle finger. Actually, I think it&#8217;s pretty amazing that this big, squishy, green blob turns into a beautiful (and quite large) moth. In this case, a Polyphemus moth (Antheraea polyphemus). It&#8217;s named after the Cyclops Polyphemus in Homer&#8217;s Odyssey &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=15268\">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":[1067,1066,1065,73,121,879,1060,1064],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15268"}],"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=15268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15271,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15268\/revisions\/15271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}