{"id":20553,"date":"2021-07-05T11:53:16","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T16:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=20553"},"modified":"2021-07-18T18:14:13","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T23:14:13","slug":"arilus-cristatus-wheel-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=20553","title":{"rendered":"<em>Arilus cristatus<\/em> (Wheel Bug)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20556\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/img_20210705_183977.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20556\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/img_20210705_183977-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Arilus cristatus (Wheel Bug)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/img_20210705_183977-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/img_20210705_183977-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/img_20210705_183977-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/img_20210705_183977-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/img_20210705_183977.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20556\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Arilus cristatus<\/em> (Wheel Bug)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I happened to notice this insect on my car this morning. I&#8217;d an immature wheel bug (<em>Arilus cristatus<\/em>) and I&#8217;ve always found them to be kind of cool. The adult wheel bug has a cog-like projection on its back, which is where it gets its common name. The wheel bug preys on caterpillars, aphids, bees, sawflies, etc. so they&#8217;re actually good to have around. They do bite, if mishandled (or sometimes just handled) and their bite can be quite painful. So, I&#8217;d avoid messing with them, if you have the choice. Just leave them alone and let them eat what they eat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I happened to notice this insect on my car this morning. I&#8217;d an immature wheel bug (Arilus cristatus) and I&#8217;ve always found them to be kind of cool. The adult wheel bug has a cog-like projection on its back, which is where it gets its common name. The wheel bug preys on caterpillars, aphids, bees, &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=20553\">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":[2858,2859,74,310,1677,2860],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20553"}],"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=20553"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20563,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20553\/revisions\/20563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}