{"id":8942,"date":"2015-09-11T18:04:43","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T23:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8942"},"modified":"2015-09-12T08:39:23","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T13:39:23","slug":"genus-ammophila-thread-waisted-wasp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8942","title":{"rendered":"Genus <em>Ammophila<\/em> (Thread-waisted Wasp)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8944\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/img_20150911_112032.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8944\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/img_20150911_112032-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Genus Ammophila (Thread-waisted Wasp)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8944\" data-wp-pid=\"8944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/img_20150911_112032-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/img_20150911_112032-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/img_20150911_112032-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/img_20150911_112032-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/img_20150911_112032-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/img_20150911_112032.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8944\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Genus <em>Ammophila<\/em> (Thread-waisted Wasp)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is one of a few species of <em>Ammophila<\/em> (the thread-waisted wasps), probably (but by no means certainly) <em>Ammophila nigricans<\/em> or <em>Ammophila procera<\/em>. They are difficult to identify, particularly from photographs and in this case, my photographs don&#8217;t show some of the distinguishing characteristics. In any case, this is one of only a few I&#8217;ve seen this summer. The wings are hiding the long, thread-like petiole, but it&#8217;s quite distinctive. I managed to get three decent pictures of this one before she flew away (I&#8217;m guessing on the sex&#x2014;the orange is paler on the males but without them being side by side, it&#8217;s not always easy to tell).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of a few species of Ammophila (the thread-waisted wasps), probably (but by no means certainly) Ammophila nigricans or Ammophila procera. They are difficult to identify, particularly from photographs and in this case, my photographs don&#8217;t show some of the distinguishing characteristics. In any case, this is one of only a few I&#8217;ve &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8942\">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\/8942"}],"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=8942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8945,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8942\/revisions\/8945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}