{"id":19257,"date":"2020-07-16T10:16:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T15:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19257"},"modified":"2020-07-20T08:12:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T13:12:31","slug":"american-dagger-moth-caterpillar-acronicta-americana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19257","title":{"rendered":"American Dagger Moth Caterpillar (<em>Acronicta americana<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19259\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_20200716_177064.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19259\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_20200716_177064-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"American Dagger Moth Caterpillar (Acronicta americana)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_20200716_177064-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_20200716_177064-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_20200716_177064-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_20200716_177064-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_20200716_177064.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19259\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Dagger Moth Caterpillar (<em>Acronicta americana<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cathy called me up from the basement this morning because she thought I might like to see this caterpillar on our back patio. It was crawling along the hose but then moved off onto some leaves and sticks, which looks a bit more natural. It is an American Dagger Moth Caterpillar (<em>Acronicta americana<\/em>). They feed on the leaves of various deciduous trees so I really shouldn&#8217;t have let it live, but I did. Apparently the hairs can cause skin irritation, so it&#8217;s something you probably don&#8217;t want to handle. I didn&#8217;t, so I cannot say whether or not it&#8217;s a serious problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathy called me up from the basement this morning because she thought I might like to see this caterpillar on our back patio. It was crawling along the hose but then moved off onto some leaves and sticks, which looks a bit more natural. It is an American Dagger Moth Caterpillar (Acronicta americana). They feed &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19257\">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":[2517,2518,2519,1065,2520,1677,879,1060],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19257"}],"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=19257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19260,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19257\/revisions\/19260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}