{"id":8907,"date":"2015-09-06T11:50:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T16:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8907"},"modified":"2015-09-10T06:44:09","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T11:44:09","slug":"megacyllene-robiniae-locust-borer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8907","title":{"rendered":"<em>Megacyllene robiniae<\/em> (Locust Borer)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8909\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/img_20150906_111606.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8909\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/img_20150906_111606-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Megacyllene robiniae (Locust Borer)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8909\" data-wp-pid=\"8909\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/img_20150906_111606-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/img_20150906_111606-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/img_20150906_111606-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/img_20150906_111606-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/img_20150906_111606-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/img_20150906_111606.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8909\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Megacyllene robiniae<\/em> (Locust Borer)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already posted the picture of the variegated fritillary (<em>Euptoieta claudia<\/em>) taken at the demonstration garden at the county\u2019s agricultural farm park. This picture won&#8217;t be so popular, because everyone loves butterflies, but I thought it was a pretty enough beetle to deserve a shot at fame. Actually, the locust borer (<em>Megacyllene robiniae<\/em>) is a pretty significant pest. The larvae live in and eat the wood from black locust trees. The adults eat pollen, particularly from goldenrod (<em>Solidago<\/em> species). This one is worn. The yellow bands that usually go all the way across the back of the thorax have been rubbed off in the middle. Most of the yellow on the abdomen is gone, as well. Still, it&#8217;s a handsome and distinctive horned beetle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve already posted the picture of the variegated fritillary (Euptoieta claudia) taken at the demonstration garden at the county\u2019s agricultural farm park. This picture won&#8217;t be so popular, because everyone loves butterflies, but I thought it was a pretty enough beetle to deserve a shot at fame. Actually, the locust borer (Megacyllene robiniae) is a &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8907\">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\/8907"}],"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=8907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8911,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8907\/revisions\/8911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}