{"id":15333,"date":"2011-08-08T18:37:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T23:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=15333"},"modified":"2018-10-02T16:07:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T21:07:42","slug":"sphinx-moth-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=15333","title":{"rendered":"Sphinx Moth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15335\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/img_20110808_019343.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15335\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/img_20110808_019343-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Sphinx Moth\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15335\" data-wp-pid=\"15335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/img_20110808_019343-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/img_20110808_019343-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/img_20110808_019343-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/img_20110808_019343-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/img_20110808_019343-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/img_20110808_019343.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15335\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sphinx Moth<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Taking pictures of bees and butterflies on flowers is hard, but at least they land, if only momentarily. This is a sphinx moth and I&#8217;ve only very rarely seen one actually land. Certainly when feeding on flowers they tend to hover. Unfortunately this one was not in the sun, so it&#8217;s not shown as nicely as it might be, but beggars cannot be choosers. I&#8217;m guessing that this is <em>Hemaris diffinis<\/em>, the snowberry clearwing, but I really don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking pictures of bees and butterflies on flowers is hard, but at least they land, if only momentarily. This is a sphinx moth and I&#8217;ve only very rarely seen one actually land. Certainly when feeding on flowers they tend to hover. Unfortunately this one was not in the sun, so it&#8217;s not shown as nicely &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=15333\">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":[1103,1102,879,1060,1101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15333"}],"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=15333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15336,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15333\/revisions\/15336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}