{"id":1608,"date":"2012-08-21T23:53:42","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T04:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=1608"},"modified":"2012-08-24T08:52:57","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T13:52:57","slug":"synanthedon-scitula-dogwood-borer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=1608","title":{"rendered":"<em>Synanthedon scitula<\/em> (Dogwood Borer)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1610\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/img_20120821_043159.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1610\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/img_20120821_043159-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Synanthedon scitula (Dogwood Borer)\" title=\"&lt;em&gt;Synanthedon scitula&lt;\/em&gt; (Dogwood Borer)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/img_20120821_043159-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/img_20120821_043159-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/img_20120821_043159.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1610\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Synanthedon scitula<\/em> (Dogwood Borer)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1628\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/img_20120821_043152.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1628\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/img_20120821_043152-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Synanthedon scitula (Dogwood Borer)\" title=\"&lt;em&gt;Synanthedon scitula&lt;\/em&gt; (Dogwood Borer)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/img_20120821_043152-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/img_20120821_043152-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/img_20120821_043152-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/img_20120821_043152-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/img_20120821_043152.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Synanthedon scitula<\/em> (Dogwood Borer)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I was taking pictures of wasps on the mountain mint again today and happened to see this little critter on the black-eyed Susans next to me. At first I thought it was some odd wasp but it didn&#8217;t really look right for that. The next thing I thought was that it looked more like a sphinx moth than anything but it was too small (about 1.5 cm long) and not really like any sphinx moth I&#8217;ve ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>Armed with that impression I did some searching and discovered a fairly large family of moths called Sesiidae or clearwing moths (about 1370 species in 151 genera). If I&#8217;m right (and I&#8217;m waiting on confirmation by an expert), this is a dogwood borer (<em>Synanthedon scitula<\/em>). If not it&#8217;s something very like that. Their larvae bore into the bark of many ornamental, fruit, and nut trees. They do significant damage to dogwoods but are also a significant problem in apple orchards.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;d never seen one before so, despite their generally unwelcome nature, I was a bit excited to get a few pretty good pictures of one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was taking pictures of wasps on the mountain mint again today and happened to see this little critter on the black-eyed Susans next to me. At first I thought it was some odd wasp but it didn&#8217;t really look right for that. The next thing I thought was that it looked more like a &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=1608\">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\/1608"}],"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=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1630,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions\/1630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}