{"id":17661,"date":"2019-09-14T16:41:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T20:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17661"},"modified":"2019-09-15T19:43:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T23:43:40","slug":"carpenter-ant-camponotus-castaneus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17661","title":{"rendered":"Carpenter Ant (<em>Camponotus castaneus<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17663\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190914_169741b.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17663\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190914_169741b-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Carpenter Ant (&lt;em&gt;Camponotus castaneus&lt;\/em&gt;)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17663\" data-wp-pid=\"17663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190914_169741b-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190914_169741b-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190914_169741b-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190914_169741b-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190914_169741b-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190914_169741b.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17663\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carpenter Ant (<em>Camponotus castaneus<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I came across this carpenter ant (<em>Camponotus castaneus<\/em>) in the yard today. I wasn&#8217;t sure I&#8217;d be able to get an identification on this ant. BugGuide.net says, about carpenter ants (Genus <em>Camponotus<\/em>), &#x201c;This is one of the most species-rich ant genera, with perhaps 1000 species World-wide.&#x201d; Nevertheless, it was identified. These are pests, of course, if they get into structures or valuable trees but they are fairly ubiquitous on almost the entire globe (only excluding the polar regions). They&#8217;re pretty things, like most insects, however.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this carpenter ant (Camponotus castaneus) in the yard today. I wasn&#8217;t sure I&#8217;d be able to get an identification on this ant. BugGuide.net says, about carpenter ants (Genus Camponotus), &#x201c;This is one of the most species-rich ant genera, with perhaps 1000 species World-wide.&#x201d; Nevertheless, it was identified. These are pests, of course, &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17661\">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":[1015,1971,1970,1972,1779,1162,73,1677],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17661"}],"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=17661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17664,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17661\/revisions\/17664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}