{"id":3882,"date":"2013-07-19T23:29:22","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T04:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=3882"},"modified":"2013-07-21T13:30:16","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T18:30:16","slug":"cotinis-nitida-green-june-beetle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=3882","title":{"rendered":"<em>Cotinis nitida<\/em> (Green June Beetle)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3883\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img_20130719_063339.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3883\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img_20130719_063339-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Cotinis nitida (Green June Beetle)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3883\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img_20130719_063339-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img_20130719_063339-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img_20130719_063339-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img_20130719_063339-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img_20130719_063339.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3883\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Cotinis nitida<\/em> (Green June Beetle)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I saw a new insect today. Well, not technically a new insect, but one I haven&#8217;t photographed before. This is a fairly large beetle, about an inch long. It was up on the buddleia bush and I was able to get a reasonably sharp picture, although not as sharp as I&#8217;d like. It&#8217;s a little like a  giant Japanese beetle, but it&#8217;s a green June beetle, <em>Cotinis nitida<\/em>, a North American native. They are generally considered to be pests, because their larvae eat the roots of many plants including grasses and ornamentals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a new insect today. Well, not technically a new insect, but one I haven&#8217;t photographed before. This is a fairly large beetle, about an inch long. It was up on the buddleia bush and I was able to get a reasonably sharp picture, although not as sharp as I&#8217;d like. It&#8217;s a little &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=3882\">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\/3882"}],"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=3882"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3897,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882\/revisions\/3897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}