{"id":3712,"date":"2013-06-30T23:33:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T04:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=3712"},"modified":"2013-07-03T11:01:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T16:01:38","slug":"chrysidinae-cuckoo-wasp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=3712","title":{"rendered":"Chrysidinae (Cuckoo Wasp)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3713\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/img_20130630_062255.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3713\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/img_20130630_062255-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Chrysidinae (Cuckoo Wasp)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/img_20130630_062255-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/img_20130630_062255-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/img_20130630_062255-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/img_20130630_062255-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/img_20130630_062255.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3713\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chrysidinae (Cuckoo Wasp)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is, I&#8217;m pretty sure, a cuckoo wasp (family Chrysididae) in the subfamily Chrysidinae. All of the species in that sub-family have metalic green, blue, or in once case red exoskeleton. They are easy to spot but not always easy to photograph, this is pretty good but I&#8217;m still hoping for something sharper. They are not very big, only about a centimeter long, and my lens doesn&#8217;t focus any closer than a foot. Maybe it&#8217;s time I invested in a set of extension tubes. Of course, they little things don&#8217;t stop moving, either, which is a significant issue. The yellow in this picture is pollen from the yarrow (<em>Achillea millefolium<\/em>) on which the wasp is perched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is, I&#8217;m pretty sure, a cuckoo wasp (family Chrysididae) in the subfamily Chrysidinae. All of the species in that sub-family have metalic green, blue, or in once case red exoskeleton. They are easy to spot but not always easy to photograph, this is pretty good but I&#8217;m still hoping for something sharper. They are &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=3712\">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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3712"}],"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=3712"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3721,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3712\/revisions\/3721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}