{"id":17609,"date":"2019-09-03T17:56:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T21:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17609"},"modified":"2019-09-09T13:29:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T17:29:36","slug":"eumenes-fraternus-potter-wasp-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17609","title":{"rendered":"<em>Eumenes fraternus<\/em> (Potter Wasp)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17611\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190903_169360.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17611\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190903_169360-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Eumenes fraternus (Potter Wasp)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17611\" data-wp-pid=\"17611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190903_169360-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190903_169360-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190903_169360-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190903_169360-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190903_169360-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190903_169360.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17611\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Eumenes fraternus<\/em> (Potter Wasp)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This potter wasp (<em>Eumenes fraternus<\/em>) is one of my favorite wasps (doesn&#8217;t everyone have favorite wasps?). There&#8217;s fairly common around here. While they are particularly drawn to the mountain mint (<em>Pycnanthemum muticum<\/em>), they are also found regularly on the black-eyed Susans (<em>Rudbekia<\/em>) and painter&#8217;s palette (a.k.a. knotweed, <em>Persicaria virginiana<\/em>). I think it&#8217;s their clean lines that I like. They&#8217;re difficult to photograph well and I&#8217;m not really happy with this photo, although it&#8217;s the best I was able to get. They don&#8217;t really stop moving and unless the light is very strong, it&#8217;s hard to get both adequate depth of field and a short enough exposure to stop their motion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This potter wasp (Eumenes fraternus) is one of my favorite wasps (doesn&#8217;t everyone have favorite wasps?). There&#8217;s fairly common around here. While they are particularly drawn to the mountain mint (Pycnanthemum muticum), they are also found regularly on the black-eyed Susans (Rudbekia) and painter&#8217;s palette (a.k.a. knotweed, Persicaria virginiana). I think it&#8217;s their clean lines &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17609\">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":[1941,1940,1939,1162,73,1677,1161,1913,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17609"}],"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=17609"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17613,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17609\/revisions\/17613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}