{"id":19471,"date":"2020-09-01T15:10:26","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T20:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19471"},"modified":"2020-09-09T15:41:54","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T20:41:54","slug":"chauliognathus-pensylvanicus-goldenrod-soldier-beetle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19471","title":{"rendered":"<em>Chauliognathus pensylvanicus<\/em> (Goldenrod Soldier Beetle)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19473\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/img_20200901_178116.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19473\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/img_20200901_178116-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Chauliognathus pensylvanicus (Goldenrod Soldier Beetle)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/img_20200901_178116-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/img_20200901_178116-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/img_20200901_178116-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/img_20200901_178116-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/img_20200901_178116.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19473\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Chauliognathus pensylvanicus<\/em> (Goldenrod Soldier Beetle)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This goldenrod soldier beetle, (<em>Chauliognathus pensylvanicus<\/em>) is well camouflaged against the petals of the black-eyed Susan in our back yard. Often when looking for insects, it&#8217;s a matter of looking for motion, because they blend in so well with the background. I spotted this on after taking a few photos of a monarch butterfly (<em>Danaus plexippus<\/em>), also on the black-eyed Susans. They are starting to fade, but there will still be plenty of color for a while yet. One interesting thing about this beetle is that the species epithet, <em>pensylvanicus<\/em>, is the correct spelling and the version with a double n (i.e. <em>pennsylvanicus<\/em>) is incorrect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This goldenrod soldier beetle, (Chauliognathus pensylvanicus) is well camouflaged against the petals of the black-eyed Susan in our back yard. Often when looking for insects, it&#8217;s a matter of looking for motion, because they blend in so well with the background. I spotted this on after taking a few photos of a monarch butterfly (Danaus &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19471\">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":[1197,2582,2583,1198,2581,73,1677,58,2580,68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19471"}],"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=19471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19474,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19471\/revisions\/19474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}