{"id":3722,"date":"2013-07-01T23:18:12","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T04:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=3722"},"modified":"2013-07-03T22:33:24","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T03:33:24","slug":"anomala-orientalis-oriental-beetle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=3722","title":{"rendered":"<em>Anomala orientalis<\/em> (Oriental Beetle)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3723\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img_20130701_062304a.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3723\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img_20130701_062304a-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Anomala orientalis (Oriental Beetle)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img_20130701_062304a-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img_20130701_062304a-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img_20130701_062304a-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img_20130701_062304a-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img_20130701_062304a.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3723\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Anomala orientalis<\/em> (Oriental Beetle)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I was trying to photograph a particularly small bee this afternoon and not having a lot of success. First, it was only about 5mm long. Second, it kept hiding behind bits of the flower it was on. Third, it kept turning so all I could get was pictures head-on.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I happened to notice this little beetle (about 10mm long) on a leaf and decided it would be an easier subject. It is an oriental beetle, <em>Anomala orientalis<\/em>, and is considered to be a pest. The larvae feed on grass roots, so they aren&#8217;t something you want to encourage. I do think the &#x2013;winged&#x2014; antennae are cool. The scientific term for that form is flabellate, meaning fan-shaped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was trying to photograph a particularly small bee this afternoon and not having a lot of success. First, it was only about 5mm long. Second, it kept hiding behind bits of the flower it was on. Third, it kept turning so all I could get was pictures head-on. Anyway, I happened to notice this &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=3722\">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\/3722"}],"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=3722"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3726,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3722\/revisions\/3726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}