{"id":18972,"date":"2020-05-20T13:32:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T18:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18972"},"modified":"2020-05-26T19:52:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T00:52:06","slug":"vespa-crabro-european-hornet-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18972","title":{"rendered":"<em>Vespa crabro<\/em> (European Hornet)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18974\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200520_176006.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18974\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200520_176006-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Vespa crabro (European Hornet)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18974\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200520_176006-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200520_176006-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200520_176006-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200520_176006-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200520_176006.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18974\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Vespa crabro<\/em> (European Hornet)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is a European hornet (<em>Vespa crabro<\/em>). It&#8217;s also dead. I found it on the floor of the basement when I stepped on it in my bare feet, which worried me a little. It was mostly dead before I stepped on it and completely dead after that. Since I didn&#8217;t get stung, I&#8217;m over it. They are predatory on other insects so in general (and outside my basement), I have no problem with them being around. They are similar in size to the eastern cicada killer (<em>Sphecius speciosus<\/em>) but are quite different in appearance. As large as they are, the European hornet is smaller than the Asian giant hornet (<em>Vespa mandarinia<\/em>, sometimes referred to as murder hornets), which can be 30% to 50% larger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a European hornet (Vespa crabro). It&#8217;s also dead. I found it on the floor of the basement when I stepped on it in my bare feet, which worried me a little. It was mostly dead before I stepped on it and completely dead after that. Since I didn&#8217;t get stung, I&#8217;m over it. &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18972\">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":[2407,2408,231,73,1677,232,2406,1913],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18972"}],"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=18972"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18976,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18972\/revisions\/18976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}