{"id":22110,"date":"2022-08-12T19:23:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T00:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22110"},"modified":"2022-09-19T08:33:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T13:33:41","slug":"sphinx-moth-hemaris-sp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22110","title":{"rendered":"Sphinx Moth (<em>Hemaris<\/em> sp.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22112\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_20220812_003875.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22112\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_20220812_003875-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Sphinx Moth (Hemaris sp.)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_20220812_003875-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_20220812_003875-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_20220812_003875-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_20220812_003875-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_20220812_003875.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22112\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sphinx Moth (<em>Hemaris<\/em> sp.)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We happened to see this sphinx moth (<em>Hemaris<\/em> sp.) in our front garden this evening. The light was low so I wasn&#8217;t able to get as much depth of field as I&#8217;d have liked. I prefer not to use the built-in flash on my camera but sometimes it&#8217;s the only way to get a decent photo and I think this one turned out well enough. They are especially hard to photograph while flying and in low light but it was nice enough to land for me. These are fairly common visitors to our garden. Not like swallowtails and skippers, but something we see often enough. They are most commonly drawn to the buddleia bushes. This one, however, had been on the <em>Verbena bonariensis<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We happened to see this sphinx moth (Hemaris sp.) in our front garden this evening. The light was low so I wasn&#8217;t able to get as much depth of field as I&#8217;d have liked. I prefer not to use the built-in flash on my camera but sometimes it&#8217;s the only way to get a decent &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22110\">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":[1103,1677,879,1060,1101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22110"}],"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=22110"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22114,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22110\/revisions\/22114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}