{"id":17195,"date":"2019-06-20T18:29:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T22:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17195"},"modified":"2019-06-24T13:04:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T17:04:16","slug":"firefly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17195","title":{"rendered":"Firefly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17197\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190620_166517.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17197\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190620_166517-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Firefly\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17197\" data-wp-pid=\"17197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190620_166517-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190620_166517-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190620_166517-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190620_166517-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190620_166517-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190620_166517.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17197\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefly<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This firefly, a beetle in family Lampyridae, probably in the genus <em>Photinus<\/em>, was on a weed in the back of our garden this evening. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/12418\" target=\"_blank\">BugGuide.net<\/a> there are 34 described species in this genus and identification of a single specimen by morphology alone is often impossible. So, I&#8217;m not even going to try. It&#8217;s a firefly and that&#8217;s good enough. One interesting fact about fireflies is that females in the genus <em>Photuris<\/em> are known to lure in males of <em>Photinus<\/em> species and eat them in order to obtain a defensive, steroid-like compound that they contain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This firefly, a beetle in family Lampyridae, probably in the genus Photinus, was on a weed in the back of our garden this evening. According to BugGuide.net there are 34 described species in this genus and identification of a single specimen by morphology alone is often impossible. So, I&#8217;m not even going to try. It&#8217;s &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17195\">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":[1197,127,1198,1175,73,1677,1787,1788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17195"}],"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=17195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17198,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17195\/revisions\/17198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}