{"id":17643,"date":"2019-09-10T18:34:05","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T22:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17643"},"modified":"2019-09-13T10:06:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T14:06:31","slug":"cosmopepla-lintneriana-twice-stabbed-stink-bug-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17643","title":{"rendered":"<em>Cosmopepla lintneriana<\/em> (Twice-stabbed Stink Bug)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17645\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190910_169606.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17645\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190910_169606-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Cosmopepla lintneriana (Twice-stabbed Stink Bug)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17645\" data-wp-pid=\"17645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190910_169606-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190910_169606-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190910_169606-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190910_169606-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190910_169606-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190910_169606.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17645\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Cosmopepla lintneriana<\/em> (Twice-stabbed Stink Bug)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I was out photographing flowers this evening. The light was fading and I didn&#8217;t think I could realistically get any photos of bees, wasps, or other flying insects. I was down on the ground to get some pictures of obedient plant, <em>Physostegia virginiana<\/em>, and I happened to notice this little fellow. I went in and got my flash, so I could get pictures that were worth something and I&#8217;m pretty happy with the results. This little bug (a true bug in the Heteroptera suborder) is only two or three millimeters long and if I hadn&#8217;t been down on the ground and very close, I never would have seen it. It is a twice-stabbed stink bug, <em>Cosmopepla lintneriana<\/em>. This one happens to be a nymph (an immature) and when adult will be mostly black with two red patches (the two &#x201c;stab&#x201d; marks of its common name).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was out photographing flowers this evening. The light was fading and I didn&#8217;t think I could realistically get any photos of bees, wasps, or other flying insects. I was down on the ground to get some pictures of obedient plant, Physostegia virginiana, and I happened to notice this little fellow. I went in and &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17643\">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":[74,1962,1961,310,1966,73,1677,72,1964,1965,1963],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17643"}],"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=17643"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17647,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17643\/revisions\/17647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}