{"id":6216,"date":"2014-07-25T19:56:27","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T00:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=6216"},"modified":"2014-08-03T18:31:26","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T23:31:26","slug":"tenodera-sinensis-chinese-mantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=6216","title":{"rendered":"<em>Tenodera sinensis<\/em> (Chinese Mantis)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6218\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/img_20140725_088401.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6218\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/img_20140725_088401-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"&lt;em&gt;Tenodera sinensis&lt;\/em&gt; (Chinese Mantis)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6218\" data-wp-pid=\"6218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/img_20140725_088401-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/img_20140725_088401-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/img_20140725_088401-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/img_20140725_088401-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/img_20140725_088401.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Tenodera sinensis<\/em> (Chinese Mantis)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cathy and I were out back this evening and she spotted this mantis on one of the chairs on our patio. I think (but I&#8217;m by no means sure) that it is a Chinese mantis (<em>Tenodera sinensis<\/em>), which were introduced here from China in 1896 to combat pests. This is a smallish one, only about two and a half inches long. It was getting a bit dark and the pictures I took by available light were not very good, so I turned on the flash and got a few pictures that are reasonably good, with the mantis standing out well against the dark background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathy and I were out back this evening and she spotted this mantis on one of the chairs on our patio. I think (but I&#8217;m by no means sure) that it is a Chinese mantis (Tenodera sinensis), which were introduced here from China in 1896 to combat pests. This is a smallish one, only about &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=6216\">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\/6216"}],"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=6216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6220,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6216\/revisions\/6220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}