{"id":18881,"date":"2020-05-02T17:27:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T22:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18881"},"modified":"2020-05-08T16:23:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T21:23:08","slug":"necrophila-americana-american-carrion-beetle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18881","title":{"rendered":"<em>Necrophila americana<\/em> (American Carrion Beetle)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18883\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200502_175577.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18883\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200502_175577-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Necrophila americana (American Carrion Beetle)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18883\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200502_175577-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200502_175577-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200502_175577-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200502_175577-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200502_175577.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18883\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Necrophila americana<\/em> (American Carrion Beetle)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We took a walk near Lake Frank today and had a really nice time. We saw one adult and one juvenile bald eagle next to and on the nest across the lake. It&#8217;s too far, really, to get a good picture but I did take a few, anyway, just to record the fact. We happened to come across this pile of American carrion beetles (<em>Necrophila americana<\/em>), presumably on a piece of carrion. They were definitely there for a reason. It&#8217;s fine to get grossed out by them, but then, without them, the rotting meat would stick around a lot longer, so in my book, they&#8217;re doing us a service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We took a walk near Lake Frank today and had a really nice time. We saw one adult and one juvenile bald eagle next to and on the nest across the lake. It&#8217;s too far, really, to get a good picture but I did take a few, anyway, just to record the fact. We happened &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18881\">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":[2373,1197,2374,1198,2372,2371],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18881"}],"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=18881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18884,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18881\/revisions\/18884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}