{"id":19005,"date":"2020-05-27T12:12:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T17:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19005"},"modified":"2020-06-01T14:16:13","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T19:16:13","slug":"lady-beetle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19005","title":{"rendered":"Lady Beetle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19007\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200527_176204.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19007\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200527_176204-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Lady Beetle\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19007\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200527_176204-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200527_176204-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200527_176204-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200527_176204-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200527_176204.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19007\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lady Beetle<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t included the specific name for this lady beetle in my title because I&#8217;m not entirely sure what it is. My guess would be that it&#8217;s an Asian lady beetle (<em>Harmonia axyridis<\/em>), though as they are quite common and this certainly looks right. But I&#8217;m no expert. I got one photo of this on a leaf before it flew away so although it isn&#8217;t as sharp a picture as I&#8217;d like, it&#8217;s all I have. These are, of course, insects that we like to have in our garden, as they eat aphids. I haven&#8217;t seen aphids in great numbers in the garden yet this year but they&#8217;ll be along before too long, have no fear. That and Japanese beetles are the two insect pests I see the most in the summer months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t included the specific name for this lady beetle in my title because I&#8217;m not entirely sure what it is. My guess would be that it&#8217;s an Asian lady beetle (Harmonia axyridis), though as they are quite common and this certainly looks right. But I&#8217;m no expert. I got one photo of this on &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19005\">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":[1977,1197,1198,1976,1975,73,1677],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19005"}],"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=19005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19008,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19005\/revisions\/19008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}