{"id":19114,"date":"2020-06-20T10:17:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T15:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19114"},"modified":"2020-06-26T12:39:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T17:39:35","slug":"white-marked-tussock-moth-orgyia-leucostigma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19114","title":{"rendered":"White-marked Tussock Moth (<em>Orgyia leucostigma<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19116\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/img_20200620_176571.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19116\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/img_20200620_176571-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"White-marked Tussock Moth (Orgyia leucostigma)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/img_20200620_176571-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/img_20200620_176571-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/img_20200620_176571-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/img_20200620_176571-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/img_20200620_176571.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19116\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">White-marked Tussock Moth (<em>Orgyia leucostigma<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I was sitting outside this morning, taking a break from doing some yard work, when I noticed this caterpillar on the tire of my car. I moved it to a plant, figuring it would be shown to better effect there than on the black tire, and then I got my camera and took a few photos. It is a white-marked tussock moth (<em>Orgyia leucostigma<\/em>), a species native to our region. Interestingly, the adult females are wingless and therefore flightless. If you find one of these, you&#8217;ll want to avoid handling it with your bare hands. Its hair is known to cause allergic reactions, especially in areas of the body with sensitive skin. I let it crawl onto a leaf to move it, so as to avoid any issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sitting outside this morning, taking a break from doing some yard work, when I noticed this caterpillar on the tire of my car. I moved it to a plant, figuring it would be shown to better effect there than on the black tire, and then I got my camera and took a few &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19114\">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":[1065,73,1677,879,1060,2469,2470,2468,2467],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19114"}],"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=19114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19117,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19114\/revisions\/19117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}