{"id":3803,"date":"2013-07-07T23:50:58","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T04:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=3803"},"modified":"2013-07-09T06:28:19","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T11:28:19","slug":"sphinx-moth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=3803","title":{"rendered":"Sphinx Moth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3804\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img_20130707_062753.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3804\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img_20130707_062753-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Hemaris diffinis (Snowberry Clearwing)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img_20130707_062753-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img_20130707_062753-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img_20130707_062753-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img_20130707_062753-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img_20130707_062753.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3804\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Hemaris diffinis<\/em> (Snowberry Clearwing)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cathy and I went to Stadler Nursery after church today. While she shopped for a few things, I browsed with my camera, taking pictures of a few flowers that I liked. At the end of one of the tables was this white buddleia and flying around the flowers sipping their nectar, was a sphinx moth. Of the 124 described species found in America north of Mexico, I believe this is <em>Hemaris diffinis<\/em>, the snowberry clearwing.<\/p>\n<p>I took quite a few blurry pictures but did get a few that are pretty decent, of which this one is the best. While I was watching, the moth never landed once. Taking a photo of a flying insect is a real challenge and you have to be prepared to end up with a lot more wasted shots than anything else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathy and I went to Stadler Nursery after church today. While she shopped for a few things, I browsed with my camera, taking pictures of a few flowers that I liked. At the end of one of the tables was this white buddleia and flying around the flowers sipping their nectar, was a sphinx moth. &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=3803\">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":[4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803"}],"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=3803"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3809,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803\/revisions\/3809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}